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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 6 or 7, while the bank swallow lays 4 or 5 and some- 

 times 6. (W. E. Saunders^ 



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

 in the Manitoba museum. {Thompson- Seton.^ 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; 

 common at Kamloops and Spence's 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 Chil- 

 liwack, in the spring of 1901 ; a common summer resident on Van- 

 couver Island, breeding at Coldstream and Shawanagin Lake; 

 also in holes by the sea shore at Comox and Sooke. {Spread- 

 borough) Much more plentiful east than west of the Coast Range. 

 {Lord.) Common throughout the province; breeds. {Streator.) 

 Common all over the province; breeds in the banks at Beacon 

 Hill, Victoria. {Fannin.) Common summer resident at Chilli- 

 wack. {Brooks.) Not common in British Columbia, but of the 

 same distribution as the barn swallow. {Rhoads.) Common at 

 Revelstoke, Salmon Arm and Agassiz and breeding in the Sea 

 Bird Bluffs near Vancouver, B.C., in May, 1897. {E. F. G. White.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Eight; three taken at Revelstoke, B.C., in May, 1890; one at 

 Robson, on the Columbia River, June 26th, 1890; two at Trail, 

 B.C., in May, 1902; two at Port Heney, Fraser River, B.C., April, 

 1889, all by Mr. Spreadborough. 



