1926]  Swarth: Birds and Mammals from the Atlin Region 133

E. M. Anderson (1915, p. 15) has described the nesting of a pair of
barn swallows on a passenger coach that traverses the two-mile portage
at Taku. The birds still rear their broods in the same place. For
their convenience a box is affixed near the roof of the coach within
(the sides of the car are open), and year after year the box is occupied.
The coach travels back and forth across the portage several times a
week, filled with people, throughout the nesting period.

Iridoprocne bicolor (Vieillot). Tree Swallow
Arrived at Atlin on June 3. Found by us nesting only about
human habitations, but during the third week in July there were so
many young tree swallows gathered upon the largest of the three
islands nearest to Atlin that it seemed as though they must have been
reared elsewhere than in the town.

Tachycineta thalassina lepida Mearns
Northern Violet-green Swallow

Abundant at Skagway, May 21, at Carcross, May 22, and at Atlin,
when we reached there on May 28. Last seen near Atlin on Septem-
ber 1. There are no rocky ledges near Atlin, such as the violet-green
swallow occupies elsewhere in the north, and as with all the other
swallows found breeding in the region, they were nesting about human
habitations, occupied or deserted, and nowhere else.

Riparia riparia (Linnaeus). Bank Swallow
A flock of migrating bank swallows appeared near Atlin on June 10,
and a single bird was seen on July 12. The species was not otherwise
observed.

Bombycilla garrula pallidiceps Reichenow. Bohemian Waxwing

A single bird seen at Carcross, May 24. At Atlin, the third week
in May, waxwings were fairly common and in pairs. On June 3 the
beginning of a nest was found, on June 4 one that was ready for
lining, and on June 11 the first set of eggs. These and several other
nests were on the mainland, not far from the lake shore, and in rather
open groves of jack pine. Nests were mostly near the ground, the
highest being some thirty feet up. They were all in the terminal forks
of downward drooping branches, six to ten feet from the trunk.