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Pall specimens of townsendi from Port Snettisham and the Taku 

 Eiver are notably dark colored, as compared with summer specimens 

 of the same subspecies from the adjacent islands. While this may be 

 due in some degree to seasonal differences of plumage, it may also be 

 indicative of intergradation toward fuUginosa at those points. 



Piranga ludoviciana ("Wilson). Western Tanager 

 A few seen in the vicinity of Telegraph Creek and Glenora, not 

 more than seven or eight individuals in all. The first noted, a male, 

 was encountered near Telegraph Creek on June 18. A nest was found 

 at Four-Mile Creek, between Telegraph Creek and G-lenora, in an alder 

 in the rather dense vegetation that bordered the stream, about twenty- 

 five feet from the ground and four feet from the main trunk. The 

 female was seen on the nest July 5. 



Two specimens of the western tanager were preserved, both adult 

 males, and both taken at Glenora, on June 30 and July 4, respectively 

 (nos. 40109-40110). 



Petrochelidon lunifrons lunifrons (Say). Cliff Swallow 

 There were a few pairs of cliff swallows breeding at Telegraph 

 Creek, the only place where we saw the species. Nests, old and new, 

 were placed on several houses in the town. One specimen collected, 

 an adult female, on June 23 (no. 40111). 



This specimen is of notably large size, as compared with breeding 

 birds from California and from Illinois. Presumably it belongs to the 

 northern subspecies that Oberholser (1919c, p. 95) has named Petro- 

 chelidon albifrons hypopoUa. As far as it goes, this single bird sub- 

 stantiates the claim of larger size in the northern race. The color 

 differences claimed for that form are not so apparent. The specimen 

 measures as follows : wing, 114 ; tail, 52.5 ; exposed culmen, 7 ; tarsus, 

 13. 



Without wishing to decry the probable existence of a recognizable 

 northern race of the cliff swallow, the writer prefers, in this connec- 

 tion, to use the older name, pending a determination by the A. 0. U. 

 Committee on Nomenclature of the several questions involved. 



Hirundo erythrogaster Boddaert. Barn Swallow 

 Breeding in fair abundance in the town of Telegraph Creek. The 

 species was already there at the time of our arrival, May 23, and the 

 birds were occupied with nest building. Nests were seen only on 



