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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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Roster
1948
Bank Swallow
July 31 5.5 mi. N Moss Landing, Monterey County, California
Went w Mr. & Mrs. Anderson of the Monterey Audubon Society to check up on a Bank Swallow colony which they found in late June of this year. The colony was reached by travelling north on the road from Castroville to Santa Cruz for a distance of 3.4 mi. North of the bridge over Elk Horn Slough, turning left proceeding for .8 mi, turning right proceeding for .5 mi, turning right & proceeding .4 mi. The colony is in a soft sandstone bank perhaps 15' high on the left side of the road. The sandstone is soft enough to excavate easily w ones fingernail and is honeycombed w over 200 holes, most of which Mr Anderson said had been occupied during the earlier part of the season. On this date only about a dozen birds were to be seen flying about and one fledged young in the entrance of a burrow. This bird soon took off & joined the others in flight. The Andersons said they had seen no Rough-winged Swallows there but showed me a Kingfisher hole in the same bank. The bank faces east and thus would photograph best in the morning.