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Campo, May 14; showery; a small number. 



San Diego, April 16, 1885, first seen, three; April 29, 

 a flock; also about twenty-five in Santa Margarita canon, 

 sixty miles north of San Diego, April 26, 1885. A single 

 bird seen 125 miles southeast of San Diego May 16, 

 1885.— L. B. 



San Bernardino. F. Stephens. — Rare transient visi- 

 tant to the valley. 



Baird, Brewer and Ridgway (vol. iii, p. 521). — Dr. 

 Cooper states that in the spring of 1873, this swift ap- 

 peared as early as April 22 near San Buenaventura. 

 The year before he first saw them near San Diego on the 

 26th. 



Nicasio. C. A. Allen. — May 12, 1884, first seen and 

 shot. r 



Sebastopol. F. H. Holmes. — An irregularly common 

 summer resident. April 19, 1885, first seen; next seen 

 April 29. 



Beaverton. A.W. Anthony. — 1884, seen several times 

 this season. April 30, 1885, six seen; next seen May 8; 

 common May 8; breeds. 



British Columbia. John Fannin. — Summer resident; 

 not common. 



Ridgway. At the Truckee Reservation, near Pyramid 

 Lake, in May and June, 1868, we saw nearly every even- 

 ing, but never until after sundown, quite a number of 

 small swifts which must have been this species, but 

 they always flew at so great a height that we found it 

 impossible to obtain a specimen. 



Murphys. John J. Snyder. — September 4, 1885, a 

 specimen. 



89. Micropus melanoleucus( Baird). Wiiite-throated 

 Swift. 



Cooper, 1870. About twelve miles north of San Diego, 



