SAND MARTIN. 161 



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- J 44) but, at this distance of time, it 

 is not possible to investigate the circumstance, and the 

 record is to be considered unreliable.] 



SAND MARTIN. 

 Cotile riparia (L.). 



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 gth 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 

 2Qth 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 I2th and I3th of May 1886, many being picked 

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



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