Auk, XIV, Jan. , 1897, p». ff-6. 
Natural Breeding Haunts of the Barn Swallow (C/ielidon erythrogaster). 
The Barn Swallow is such a familiar tenant of our barns and out- 
houses that it may not have occurred to many to wonder where they 
nested before man provided them with such resorts. During the summer 
of 1895, while visiting the headwaters of Lake Chelan, in Washington, 
I found the Swallows at home. The shores of the lake near its head are 
very precipitous, since the mountains rise here some 7,000 feet above the 
surface of the water. Along the shore line, in the side of the cliffs, 
which continue several hundred feet below the water, the waves have hoi- 
lowed out crannies and caves. In one of these latter, which penetrated 
the granite wall to a depth of some twenty feet, I found four or five Barn 
Swallows’ nests, some containing young, and two, although it was so 
late in the season (July 9, 1895), contained eggs. Others were to be found 
in neighboring crannies outside the cave. Another visit paid to this spot 
on August 10 of this year (1896) discovered one nest. still occupied, which 
contained four eggs. Although breeding thus in a perfectly primitive 
state there was no important difference observed in the birds’ methods of 
construction. The nests were either affixed to the vertical walls of the 
cavern or else rested slightly on rocky knobs and projections. The 
feathery linings of the nests consisted of copious collections of the 
feathers of wild fowl, such as Ducks, Grouse, etc. 
The only other place in Okanogan County where I recall having seen 
Barn Swallows was at Malott, some 60 miles distant, where the birds had 
adopted the manners of civilization and were breeding in a large barn. — • 
William L. Dawson, Oberli?i , Ohio. 
Auk, XV, April, 1898, p'03. 
The Friends’ Meeting House, corner of South Carolina and Pacific 
Avenues, has been used as a breeding place by a colony of Barn ^wallows 
( Chelidon erythrogastra ') for a number of years, building their nests on 
top of the caps of the pilasters around the outside' of the building. 
While watching their movements from the veranda of a cottage on the 
opposite side of the street, I noticed a Swallow fly out from under an arc- 
light hood which stood above the sidewalk. From the frequent trips to 
and fro, the nest I thus discovered no doubt contained young. — 
J. Harris Reed, Beverly , N. J. 
