1 88 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS. 



visitor in either."^ Mr. H. E. Dresser found it 

 common in Southern Texas, and Mr. O. Salvin 

 obtained several specimens in Guatemala. It 

 has even been met with in- the Bermudas, 600 

 miles from Cape Hatteras, the nearest point of 

 the North American coast.^ . 



In Europe the Sand Martin generally makes 

 its appearance in the spring somewhat earlier 

 than any of the other Swallows, and departs 

 sooner. From different stations on the Medi- 

 terranean large flocks have been observed at 

 the period of the vernal migration winging their 

 way northward, returning even in greater num- 

 bers in the autumn. Mr. O. Salvin saw this 

 species between Tunis and Kef during the third 

 week in March. Canon Tristram, who found it 

 abundant in Palestine in the sandy banks of the 

 Jordan, has suggested that it is double-brooded, 

 since he found it nesting in Egypt in February. 

 The same observer met with it in November on 

 its autumn migration through the Sahara. When 



1 " Birds of North America," p. 313. 



^ Jones's " Naturalist in Bermudas," p. 34. 



