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THE SWALLOW. 



Ilirundo rustica L. 



The Swallow arrived along the whole of the south coast, 

 hut chiefly on the western half. 



A single bird was seen in Dorsetshire on the 3rd of 

 January, and two or three in co. Kerry on the 23rd. 



Migrants first appeared at the Scilly Isles on the Gth 

 and 13th of March and in Devonshire on the 19th, while 

 between the 21st and the end of the month stragglers were 

 noticed in Kent, the Isle of Wight, Shropshire, Carnarvon- 

 shire, Surrey, Wiltshire, Berkshire and as far north as 

 Cheshire and Yorkshire. The first definite immigration, 

 small in numbers, landed along the whole of the south coast 

 between the 31st of March and the 5th of April, but with 

 the exception of a few birds which landed in Kent on the 

 the former date, the whole of these migrants passed through 

 the western counties, some of the earlier arrivals reaching 

 Cumberland on the 3rd and Northumberland on the Gth of 

 April. On the 10th, 12th and 14th of that month a second 

 series of small immigrations arrived, which seem to have 

 furnished a proportion of the birds for Wales on the one 

 hand and for the south-eastern counties and East Anglia on 

 the other. 



The main immigratory movement commenced on the loth of 

 April, and thereafter Swallows continued to arrive on some 

 part or other of the south coast every day until the 11th 

 of May. Between the loth and 18th of April the movement 

 seems to have been confined almost entirely to the western 

 half of England and North-east Wales, Westmoreland and 

 Northumberland being reached on the 17th and the Isle of 

 Man and Renfrewshire on the following day. It was not 



