THE MARTIN. 



{Hirundo urbica.) 



\ LTHOUGH arriving in this country some- 

 "*• *■ what later than the Swallow, the Martin 

 may be said to have nearly the same geographical 

 range. Mr. Yarrell thought that the Swallow 

 did not go so far north as the Martin/ but both 

 are found in summer in Iceland and the Faroe 

 Isles. Mr. Dann remarked that there was no 

 want of food for them in Norway and Lapland, 

 as the morasses in the sheltered valleys swarm 

 with insects. During the season that if is absent 

 from England it resides in North Africa, Egypt, 



^ " History of British Birds," vol. ii. p. 251 (3rd ed.) 



