54 HOUSE MARTIN 
feet), the birds in the latter case being still in the 
neighbourhood. Both are wild moorland localities. 
Mr. Kermode notes that Mr. R. Teare, Glentrammon, 
had a pure white specimen. 
The Laxey river where it enters the village is called 
Awin-Gollane, which has been explained to me as ‘ Swallow 
Stream,’ possibly, however, named from the fork (Goll= 
Gollan) which it makes with the Glenroy branch near. 
A summer visitor all over Great Britain and Ireland, 
though less abundant in the north of the former and the 
extreme west of the latter, the Swallow is known on 
migration only in the Outer Hebrides, but breeds in 
Orkney, and, occasionally at least, in Shetland. 
CHELIDON URBICA (Linn.). HOUSE 
MARTIN. 
The Martin is in Man a somewhat scarce summer visitor, 
and its nests are here rarely attached to houses. Yet there 
were in 1884 nests on the Central Hotel, St. John’s, and 
at the northern end of Douglas, near the rocky coast, a 
number built on villas at Strathallan Park in 1887, and in 
1893 and 1894 on the pavilion of ‘ Derby Castle, close to 
the sea. In later years Mr. F. Nicholson has seen nests on 
various houses in the upper parts of Douglas.’ I have seen 
birds also elsewhere in Douglas, at Ramsey, and at Kirk 
Michael, under circumstances that suggested breeding. 
A few, Mr. Graves thinks about twenty pairs, nest on 
Contrary Head, Patrick, at a great height above the sea, 
and at Pistol, Santon, there is a pretty little colony on the 
1 And in 1905 on one of the large houses on its shore front. 
