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the date of its arrival in Sadankyda, as the 18th of May, in Karesuando as the 17th to 

 the 30th of May, in Utsjoki as the 1st and 4th of June, in Enare as the 13th of May, 

 and in Muonio as the 14th of June. It is recorded as the commonest hreedins hird in 

 the Kandalakscha district. 



In Kussia it is said to be generally distributed, and -was found by Mr. Meves 

 at Archangel. Messrs. Alston and Harvie-Brown state that they noticed House- 

 Martins at St. Petersburg, Wuitegra, and Archangel, in T^hich latter place they nested 

 among the stone carvings of the Imperial Barracks. Mr. Seebohm and Mr. Harvie- 

 Brown did not meet with it on the Petchora, but Mr. Sabanaeff states that it is found 

 in the Ural Mountains, as high as 60°. Taczanowsky records the Martin as a summer 

 visitant to Poland, but states that it has become mucli less plentiful during the last 

 twenty years. 



Throughout all the other countries of Europe the Martin seems to nest, arriving 

 and commencing to build in the south much earlier than it does in the north. Thus 

 Mr. Benzon considers that it is at least five days later in its arrival in Denmark than it 

 is in England ; wdiile still further to the south, Mr. Howard Saunders found the birds 

 busy building their nests at Seville on the 19th of Eebruary. Mr. Tait says that in 

 Portugal the average date for the arrival of the species at Coimbra is the 19th of Eebruary, 

 and that for departure the 7th of October ; these dates are given by Senhor Carvalho as 

 the result of twenty-three years' experience. Mr. Tait says that in 1S87 he noticed a 

 Martin at Abrantes, on the Tagus, on the 2nd of Eebruary. 



Colonel Irby gives the 5th of Eebruary as the earliest date of arrival noticed by him 

 at Gibraltar ; and the species is found all over Spain, except in the Basque Provinces, 

 where, according to Mr. Howard Saunders, it is almost unknown, though it is plentiful 

 a little further to the east. 



The Martin is also common in Italy in March and April, returning in September 

 and October. Count Salvadori considers it unlikely that tlie sjiecies breeds in Italy, 

 certainly not in tlie southern part, while Benoit's statement that it winters there is also 

 stated to be erroneous. 



Doderlcin mentions that the species winters in Sicily, but there is no record of its 

 wintering in Corsica or Sardinia, where, however, the species breeds abundantly. 



Mr. Godman's note upon the species in the Canary Islands is as follows : — " This 

 species is not recorded as a resident by other observers, and pei'haps is only accidental ; 

 but as I saw a pair that had a nest at St. Anna in Madeira, I include it. I did not meet 

 with it in the Canaries or elsewhere. Bollc says he saw swarms of them at OHva. in 

 Eucrteventura, in April 1S52. He remarks that they disappeared as (luickly as they 

 came." Mr. Meade-Waldo, however, met with the Martin in the Canaries in tliousands, 

 and lie considers it to be now a regular spring and autuii.n niigrniit. 



In Algeria it nests in tlie towns and A'illagcs, aceordiitg td Loelic. ^Ir. I)i\i>ii says 

 that he met with Martins everywhere from the coast to Biskra. .Mr. SiiUiii nuiiccd 

 several at Souza, and again at Tunis. Dr. Koenin' lias sciii the sjn-cics in ihr latter 



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