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arriving and departing about the same time that it 

 does in England. It is spread over all the Islands, 

 but confined to certain spots in each ; in Guernsey 

 the outskirts of the town about Candie Eoad, and 

 the rocks in Fermain and Petit Bo Bay, seem very 

 favourite nesting-places. In Alderney there were 

 a great many nests about Scott's Hotel and a few 

 more in the town, but I did not see any about the 

 cliffs as at Fermain and Petit Bo in Guernsey. 



Professor Ansted includes it in his list, but only 

 marks it as occurring in Guernsey and Sark. 



90. SAND MARTIN. Cotyle riparia, Linnaeus. 

 French, " Hirondelle de rivage." When I first 

 made out my list of Guernsey birds I had omitted 

 the Sand Martin altogether, as I had never seen it 

 in the Islands, but Mr. MacCulloch wrote to me to 

 say, " Amongst the swallows you have not noticed 

 the Sand Martin, which is our earliest visitant in 

 this family and by no means uncommon." In 

 consequence of this note, as soon as I got to the 

 Island this year (1878), in June, I went everywhere 

 I could think likely to look for Sand Martins, but 

 nowhere could I find that the Sand Martins had 

 taken possession of a breeding- station. Knowing 

 from my own experience here that Sand Martins 

 are fond of digging their nest-holes in the heads of 

 quarries, (I had quite forty nest-holes in my quarry 

 this year, and forty pairs of Sand Martins inhabiting 



