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OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS. 



The first Swallow was seen, not as might be 

 supposed in the south or south-east of England, 

 but four miles south of Glasgow, on the 2nd of 

 March, and Mr. Robert Gray states that this 

 is the earliest record of its arrival in Scot- 

 land. It is, indeed, an exceptionally early 

 arrival, for nearly a month expired before 

 another was seen at Cromer, on the 31st of the 

 same month, and six weeks elapsed between the 

 first and second appearance of the bird in Scot- 

 land. On the I St April, with a S.E. wind, this 

 harbinger of spring arrived at Great Cotes, in 

 Lincolnshire, and on the 3rd of that month 

 was noticed simultaneously at Nottingham and 

 Taunton. From the 6th of April the arrival of 

 Swallows was pretty general until the 13th, when 

 they were first noticed in Ireland at Ballina, co. 



