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second brood and went south, September gth, 1901; the young 

 died in the nest. {W. H. Moore!) I was told by missionaries 

 that the swallows nested in the deserted Eskimo igloos, building 

 their mud nests against the sides near the roof. On July, ist, 1899, 

 I found a barn swallow's nest built on a beam in the house of a 

 small river steamer, stranded at the side of Mission Inlet. The 

 nest was constructed as usual of a mixture of mud and grasses 

 with a lining of finer grass and a large quantity of white ptarmigan 

 feathers almost burying the eggs. {Grinnell.) Nests oblong 

 and attached to the walls or to the rafters of barns and other 

 buildings; or round and placed on the beams. They are made 

 of mud arranged in small pellets formed and mixed with grass and 

 have a lining of feathers and hair. Four to six eggs in the set at 

 Ottawa and at Lake Nominingue, 100 miles, north of it, in June 

 and July. {Garneau) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Five; one taken at Ottawa in May, 1888, by Prof. Macoun; two 

 taken at Banff, Rocky Mountains, in May, 1891, and two at Agas- 

 siz, B.C., in May, 1889, by Mr. Spreadborough. 



Two sets of four and five eggs, respectively taken at Wolfville, 

 N.S., June 12th and 14th, 1902, by Mr. H. Tufts. 



613a. Alaskan Barn Swallow. 



Hirundo erythrogaster unalaschkensis {GwEi..) Palmer. 1899. 

 A few barn swallows were flying over the marshes of Chilcat 

 Inlet, June 1st, 1899; I heard they were common at White Pass 

 City, June 9th, and we saw two about the buildings at White Pass 

 summit, June loth; at Log Cabin they were common, June i4-20th; 

 a few were noticed at Lake Bennett, June i9-2ist. I refer all 

 seen to this sub-species, because all had remarkably long tails. 

 {Bishop) Walking along the hills near the village of St. George 

 on May 28th, 1890, with Mr. Ed. Lavender, we saw a swallow 

 skimming along the edge of the cliff, catching the flies which the 

 warm sun had enticed from the crevices of the rocks. Shortly 

 afterwards it flew just over my head while among the houses of 

 the village. Drs. Noyes and Hereford, who have each spent more 

 than f€n years on the island, assured me that a swallow was un- 

 known there, but later in the evening I had the opportunity of 

 showing them the bird on another part of the cliff ; it remained 



