On the Arrival and Retreat of British Hirundines, 



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TABLE showing the earliest and latest Appearances of the British i/irundines 

 from the Year 1800 to the present Time. 



a. In the Isle of Wight 



b. This was a single bird seen at Birmingham. I observed others in Northamptonshire on the 21st of 

 August, and one at Coventry on the 24th. The last seen at Allesley were on the 5th of August. 



c. At Worksop, in Yorkshire ; a single bird. 



d. At Lancaster ; many birds flying in packs, and squealing about the town. I had observed none else- 

 where since the 7th of August. 



e. Near Penzance. I was informed by an observant friepd that one swallow appeared at Allesley on 

 the lOth of November, and martens at Oxford on the 14th ; and at the latter place one marten or swal- 

 low on the 20th. 



/. Two or three swifts sporting about with the large assemblies of swallows and martens by the sea- 

 side, near Penzance, to the eastward. These birds, there can be little doubt, were on their passage from 

 this country to a more southern climate. I had seen »one for a month previously ; the last I observed 

 were on the 1st of August, near Bristol. In Warwickshire swifts were seen this year on the 27th of August 



g. Near Penzance. 



h. Upwards of a score sand martens seen in the evening, sporting over the marshes between Gulval and 

 Marizion, near Penzance. The wind at that time was N. W., and the thermometer stood on that day at 

 50 in the shade at noon. 



i. A single bird seen in this parish ; one, and most probably the same, individual had been observed by 

 another person at the same place, on the 6th of April. 



k. A single bird seen in Northamptonshire. In Warwickshire they were mostly gone by the 15th of 

 August ; one seen on the 20th. 



I. A single bird seen at Birmingham. I had observed none since the 20th of October. 



m. At Eastbourne, Sussex. 



n. Two or three birds seen near London. Last seen in Warwickshire on the 15th of October. Mostly 

 gone by the 6th. 



o. Two birds so high in the air that I could not be quite certain whether they were sand martens or 

 house martens, but believe them to have been the former. ' 



p. I am informed that a swallow was seen at Maxstoke Castle in this county on Nov. 11th. 



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