CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 55 I 



CCXIX. RIPARIA FoRSTER. 1817. 

 616. Bank Swallow. 



Riparia riparia (Linn.) Sharp & Wyatt. 1894. 



A pair said to have been seen on Melville Island, June 9th, 

 1820, by Parry. {Arct. Man) Audubon states that it rarely 

 begins to breed before June and lays only once; said to be plen- 

 tiful on the south shore of Labrador. {Packard) Not common, 

 but few seen throughout the trip from Moose Factory across 

 Ungava to the forks of the Koksoak above Fort Chimo on Au^- 

 24th, 1896. {Spreadborough.) Very rare at Cow Head, Newfound- 

 land, but said to be common about the Bay of St. George. {Reeks.) 



Not found at Halifax, N.S., but plentiful about the shores of 

 the Bay of Fundy. {Eowns.) Not rare in certain localities along 

 Bras d'Or, Cape Breton Island, 1898; rather common at Brackley 

 Point, Prince Edward Island, July, 1888. (Macoun.) 1 perhaps 

 do this species an injustice when I say that it is outnumbered by 

 the Savanna sparrow and the junco. I saw colonies of hundreds 

 at several points along the coast, and as every bluff is crowned by 

 a layer of sand and much of the coast is a continuous bluff the 

 species have unrivalled opportunities for nesting places. 

 {Dwight) A common summer . resident at St. John, N.B. 

 {Chamberlain) An abundant summer resident in suitable locali-, 

 ties at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B. {W.H.Moore) A small 

 colony was found at the mouth of the Kedgwick, Restigouche 

 valley, N.B. {Brittain & Cox.) Tolerably common on the Mag- 

 dalen Islands; breeding on Grindstone Island. {Bishop) We 

 met with this species frequently in the Gulf of St. Lawrence but 

 only observed two breeding stations, one at Grand Entry Island 

 in the Magdalens and the other at Gaspe, Que. {Brewster.) 

 Summer resident around Quebec. {Dionne) A common summer 

 resident at Montreal. A small colony of these birds used to breed 

 in the bank above the high level reservoir in Mount Royal park, 

 but they deserted the placejn 1885; another large colony used to 

 breed in the sand pits at Hochelaga, where I have observed them 

 burrowing May 12th. {Wintle) 



A common and abundant summer resident at Ottawa. {Ottawa 

 'Naturalist, Vol. V.) Very common in eastern Ontario. {Rev. 

 C.J. Young.) An abundant summer resident in the Parry Sound 

 and Muskoka districts. (/. H. Fleming) Not common in Al- 



