SAND MARTIN. i6i 



1781 (Tunst. MS. 1784, p. 76), and a pure albino, with pink 

 eyes, was noted at Patrington on 26th September 1880. 



The local names in general use are : Swallow, House Swallow, 

 Window Swallow, and Martin ; while Eaves or Easin Swallow 

 is a name applied to the bird in the Craven district. 



[An American Purple Martin {Progne purpurea, L.) was 

 shot at Colne Bridge near Huddersfield in 1854 (Hobkirk's 

 Huddersfield, 1859, P- ^44)' ^^t' ^^ this distance of time, it 

 is not possible to investigate the circumstance, and the 

 record is to be considered unreliable.] 



SAND MARTIN. 



Cotile riparia (Z.). 



Summer visitant, abundant in suitable localities. 



Probably the first notice of this species in the county is 

 found in Graves's "History of Cleveland " (1808), where it is 

 enumerated in the list of migrants. 



Thomas A His, in 1844, referred to it thus : — 



Hirundo riparia. — Sand Martin — Common near Doncaster ; a 

 few pairs are occasionally met with near Sheffield ; pretty frequent in 

 favourable localities in other districts. 



The Sand Martin arrives from early in April to the middle 

 of the month ; in the south of the county, at Barnsley, 

 the 9th is computed, from an analysis of many years' records, 

 to be the average date ; in central and north Yorkshire 

 it does not make its appearance till a few days later, though, 

 as in the case of its congeners, stragglers are occasionally 

 noted much earlier, as at Otley where one was recorded on 

 29th February 1886 {Field, 3rd April 1886), and at Ackworth 

 a pair were seen on 28th March 1897. This species felt the 

 ill-effects of the storm that proved so disastrous to the Swallow 

 tribe on the 12th and 13th of May 1886, many being picked 

 up dead or starving [Nat. 1886, p. 182 ; see also Swallow, p. 155). 



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