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of grass and feathers built in a deserted woodpecker's nest ; it may 

 be in any hole in tree or fence post around Ottawa where they breed 

 ia numbers. The four or five eggs are laid in May and June. {Gar- 

 neau.) 



615. Northern Violet-green Swallow. 



Iridoprocne thalassina lepida (Mearns) A.O.U. Comm. 1902. 



Observed only on one occasion June 26th, 1874, on the upper 

 Missouri, near Quaking Ash river. (Coues.) A common species at 

 Banff, Rocky mountains, breeding in cliffs at Canmore, June, 1891 ; 

 a large colony was found along the Wait-a-bit which flows into the 

 Columbia at Donald, B.C.; not seen at Revelstoke, but shot in the 

 Eagle pass a little to the west; quite common at Deer Park and 

 Robson in the Columbia valley, breeding in large numbers in the 

 cliffs; observed a few at Henry House, Athabaska pass in July, 

 1898; first seen.'^J April 9th, 1903, common by the 17th at Penticton, 

 south of Lake Okanagan; a number seen near Femie, B.C., in 1904 

 and common, from Midway to Osoyoos lake in 1906; abundant 

 around the cascade at Spence Bridge and at Yale, B.C., May, 1889; 

 a few were observed at Chilliwack, B.C., in the spring of 1901, and 

 a pair found nesting there in 1906; first seen near Victoria, Van- 

 couver island, April 8th, 1893; by May loth they were very abun- 

 dant ; later in the season they were found breeding at Sooke, Nanaimo 

 and Comox. (Spreadborough.) Common in British Columbia. (Lord.) 

 Found only at Ashcroft in 1889; breeds. (Streator.) An abundant 

 summer resident throughout the province. (Fannin.) Common; 

 may breed in the vicinity of Chilliwack. (Brooks.) Uniformly distri- 

 buted throughout British Columbia up to 7,000 feet. (Rhoads.) 

 Common at Donald, Columbia river; very' common at the mouth 

 of Nicola river, B.C.; and in Stanley park, Vancouver, B.C. (E. 

 F. G. White.) 



We saw a single male among flocks of bank swallows flying over 

 Fifty-mile river above Miles canon, July nth, 1899, and another 

 between White Horse rapids and Lake Lebarge. In July, I took 

 a male from several that we saw near HootaUnqua river and at the 

 Semenow hills, July 20th, Osgood secured a female, finding her nest 

 with four young in a crevice in the cliff; after this we saw colonies 

 of from six to ten individuals and one near White river that must 



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