584 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



CCXLIV. STELGIDOPTERYX Baird. 1858. 

 617. Rough- Winged Swallow. 



Stelgidopteryx serripennis (Aud.) Baird. 1858. 



Probably a rare summer resident at Toronto, Ont. A male 

 was taken, May i6tli, 1900, and on June i2tli, 1906, I found 

 a pair building in an old kingfisher's tunnel and took the 

 female. (J. H. Fleming.) Common along the streams and 

 rivers of Middlesex county, Ont. Data are lacking for other 

 points in the west of the province. I have been unable to 

 ascertain that this bird ever excavates its own nesting holes. 

 Certainly it often uses old kingfisher holes and sometimes a cavity 

 in a brick wall. The holes are not less than three inches in the 

 smallest diameter, and the nests have been found at all depths. 

 Sometimes they are visible from the outside and at others 40 inches 

 from the outside. The nests are bulky and made of straws, weed- 

 stems, roots and small sticks, and are usually lined with green 

 willow leaves, but have not so far been found with a feather lining 

 as is usually the case with the bank swallow. The eggs are larger 

 than those of that species, and are in sets of six or seven, while the 

 bank swallow lays four or five and sometimes six. (W. E. Saunders.) 



A specimen of this bird, taken near Winnipeg by Mr. Hine, is 

 in the Manitoba museum. {E. T. Seton.) Probably occurs at 

 Aweme, Man, but passes for the last. (Criddle.) Found breeding 

 at Canmore within the Rocky mountains in June, 1891; shot at 

 Revelstoke, B.C., May 6th, 1890; breeding in the cut banks of the 

 Columbia in many places; large numbers were nesting at Robson 

 in July, 1890; breeding in numbers in a bank on Trail creek, B.C., 

 in June, 1902; seen for only a few days at Penticton in 1903; ob- 

 served a number near Fernie, B.C. in 1904 and between Midway and 

 Osoyoos lake in 1905; common at Kamloops and Spence Bridge; 

 also breeding in a steep bank near Vancouver, B.C., and at Port 

 Moody, Burrard inlet, and at Port Heney, on the Fraser river; 

 common at ChiUiwack, in the spring of 1901 ; a common summer 

 resident on Vancouver island, breeding at Coldstream and Shaw- 

 nagin lake; also in holes by the sea shore at Comox and Sooke. 

 (Spreadborough.) Much more plentiful east than west of the Coast 

 range. (Lord.) Common throughout the province; breeds. 



