530 MARABOU-STORK—MARTIN 
movements, evincing more curiosity than timidity on being ap- 
proached. As with members of the Paradiseide generally, the 
nidification of the Manucodes had been shrouded in mystery, until, 
as recorded by Mr. North (Rec. Austral. Mus. ii. p. 32, pl. vii.), the 
nest and eggs of Jf. comrii were found, in July 1891, by Mr. 
Rickard on Fergusson Island, one of the D’Entrecasteaux group, 
off the south-eastern coast of New Guinea. 
MARABOU-STORK, Lepitoptilus crumenifer, see ADJUTANT. 
MARLIN, apparently a corrupt spelling of MERLIN, of which 
it is an ancient form, but applied in the east coast of North America 
with qualification to any species of CURLEW or GODWIT. 
MARROCK or MARROT, one of the many local names of the 
GUILLEMOT and RAZzoR-BILL, perhaps also of the PUFFIN. 
MARSH-HEN, used in North America for various species of 
RAIL; but especially, it would seem, for fallus elegans and R. 
crepitans (Turnbull, Names & Portr. B. pp. 125, 127). 
MARTIN formerly MARTLET! (French, Martinet and Mar- 
telet), the Hirundo urbica of Linneus and Chelidon urbica of most 
modern ornithologists,” a bird very well known throughout Europe, 
including even Lapland, where it is abundant, retiring in winter to 
the’ south of Africa.? It also inhabits the western part of Asia, 
and appears from time to time in large flocks in India; but the 
boundaries of its range and those of some of its Eastern congeners 
cannot as yet be laid down. The Martin (or House-MarrIN, as it 
is often called, to distinguish it from the Sand-Martin presently to 
be mentioned) commonly reaches its summer-quarters a few days 
later than the SwALLow, whose habits its own so much resemble 
that heedless persons often disregard the very perceptible differences 
1 Thus Shakespear— 
‘¢ Like the martlet, 
Builds in the weather on the outward wall.” 
Merchant of Venice, Act ii. se. 9. 
But the older English form is, except in heralds’ language, almost obsolete, and 
when used is now applied in some places to the Swirr. The forms Martyn, 
Mertyn, and Morton are found printed in some Scottish Acts of Parliament, 
and from the context may be inferred to mean a Bird, but of what kind it is hard 
to guess. 
2 Of late North-American writers have taken the words Chelidon and Hirundo 
in the opposite sense, which is puzzling to readers in the rest of the world. 
3 After the publication of the account of this species in Yarrell’s British Birds 
(ed. 4, ii. p. 354), the late Mr. Gurney informed me of a specimen obtained out 
of a migratory flock flying very high on the Qua’qua’ river, lat. 19° 10’S., by 
the expedition of Messrs. Jameson and Ayres, 23rd October 1880, and the fact 
has since been recorded by Capt. Shelley (Zbis, 1882, p. 259). Mr. Fairbridge 
believes that he has lately found the species breeding in Cape Town. 
