. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . f : wing f ); tail (50): billfrom nostril .20 (). Recognition Marks.—Smallest of the Swallows; throat white: brownishgray pectoral band on white ground. Nesting.—Nest, at end of tunnels in banks, two or three feet in : a frailmat of straws and grasses and occasionally feathers. Breeds usually in , 4-6, sometimes 7, pure white. Av. size, .70 x .49 (). Season:June: one brood. General Range.—Northern Hemisphere: in Ame
. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . f : wing f ); tail (50): billfrom nostril .20 (). Recognition Marks.—Smallest of the Swallows; throat white: brownishgray pectoral band on white ground. Nesting.—Nest, at end of tunnels in banks, two or three feet in : a frailmat of straws and grasses and occasionally feathers. Breeds usually in , 4-6, sometimes 7, pure white. Av. size, .70 x .49 (). Season:June: one brood. General Range.—Northern Hemisphere: in America south to West America, and northern South America; breeding from the middle dis-tricts of the United States northward to about the limit of trees. Range in Washington.—Summer resident; not common. A few largecolonies are known east of the Cascades; westerly they are rare or wanting. Migrations.—Spring: May 11, 1896, Chelan. THE BANK SWALLOW. 337 Authorities.—Clificolu riparia, Dawson, Auk, \V>1. Xl\. April, 1807, p. [L.] D-. Kb. D-. Kk. B. E.( H).Specimens.—Prov. C. ^..^. BANK SWALLOW. THOSE who know, conceive a regard for this plain-colored bird whichis quite out of keeping with its humble garb and its confessedly prosy fact is, we have no other bird so nearly cosmopolitan, and we of theWest, who are being eternally reminded of our newness, and who are, indeed,upon the alert for some new shade of color upon the feather of a bird for eachadded degree of longitude, take comfort in the fact that here at least is an un- 338 THE BANK SWALLOW. changeable t\pe, a visible link between Stuniptown-on-vSwinimiish and Flor-ence on the Arno. Birds of ijrecisely this feather are suniniering on the Lena,or else hawking at flies on the sunny Gaudalquivir, or tunneling the sacredbanks of the ; and the flatter\- is not lost uixm us of such as still preferthe Nespileni and the Pilchuck. The life of a Swallow is so largely spent a-wing,
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