The Nesting of Stelgidopteryx serripennis in Norwich, Vt. — May 
6, 1905, I was walking along the bank of the Connecticut River in Nor- 
wich, Vt., when two swallows, perched on a dead limb over the water, 
attracted my notice. A near view at once made their identification as 
Rough-winged Swallows certain.^ On a visit to the same place the fol- 
lowing day, I found the swallows still about, and in hopes of obtaining a 
breeding record I began to search for a nest. 
On May 12 I was rewarded by seeing the pair of swallows flying back 
and forth to a clay bank beside the road. There, about twenty feet up, 
was a hole into which the birds were carrying grass and leaves for lining 
material. The tunnel, measuring 20 inches in length, slanted slightly 
upward, and contained a nest at the further end. The hole was notice- 
ably larger in diameter than those of a colony of Bank Swallows in a bank 
near by. 
My observation of their nesting was interrupted more or less by other 
work and so is not as complete as I wish. During the last two weeks of 
May the swallows were busy incubating, both taking turns at sitting on 
the eggs. In early June the young were hatched and both birds took care 
of the young. Unfortunately I had to leave before the young birds were 
able to fly. 
April 29, 1906, I found the pair of Rough-winged Swallows again flying 
back and forth over the river. They returned to the old nest, which they 
cleaned out and relined, and again used to rear their young. Their return 
to the old nest leads me to feel quite sure that they have used the nest for 
a number of years, and I shall look for them again next spring. 
That a pair of Rough-winged Swallows have chosen this spot to breed 
in, seems of unusual interest to me, because in a heavy hemlock woods 
not more than one hundred yards distant, Winter Wrens, Red-breasted 
Nuthatches, and a pair of Northern Pileated Woodpeckers breed. — • 
Francis G. Blake, Hanover, N . H. 
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