SWALLOW 53 
south-western Scotland the end of the second week in 
April is given as its average date of arrival (B. A. Migr. 
Report, 1901). 
During April and May it is schand nal reported at our 
light-stations (all three species probably being included 
under the name), and the return passage is recorded in 
August, September, and October. On 19th October 1884 
Swallows are mentioned at Langness, on 20th October 
1881 both at Langness and the Chickens, and again on 
21st October 1886 at the former, but later records are not 
unusual, In 1884 the Isle of Man Times reports the bird 
on 11th November, and toward the end of November 1897 
one, accompanied by a House Martin, was for some days 
flying about Castle Rushen; I saw it last on the 28th. 
The weather on the latter day was cold and stormy though 
clear, and the birds kept well on the sunny side of the 
building, whose high grey walls doubtless both sheltered 
them from the wind and reflected the heat of the sun. 
This swallow was an immature bird. Mr. Kermode was 
informed by John Quayle that once after a snowstorm he 
noticed feathers in the window of an old house at Milntown, 
and putting his hand in found about twenty Swallows. A 
few, which he took out, flew about in a very sluggish and 
aimless fashion. 
Mr. Kermode states that he has found its nest in caves, 
and Mr. W. E, Teschemaker in the Bazaar, 13th April 
1887 (reprinted Zool., 1887, p. 372), describes his finding 
young birds in a nest in a cave on the Santon coast as late 
as 6th September (1886). 
Mr. Graves in 1902 found nests of the preceding season 
on the roof timbers of two empty cottages at Dreembeary, 
German, about eight hundred and twenty feet above sea- 
level, and again in the outhouses of the deserted farm of 
Eary Cushlin, Patrick (about seven hundred and eighty-five 
