52 SWALLOW 
HIRUNDO RUSTICA, Linn. SWALLOW. 
Manx, Go//langéi (Bishop Phillips’s Prayer Book, 1610); Gollan- 
geayee or gheayee (M. 8. D. and Cr.)=fork of the wind. 
(Cf. Irish and Sc. Gaelic, Gobhlan Gaoithe ; Welsh, Gwennol ; 
Breton, Gwignol, Gwignelenn. ) 
One of the ‘seven sleepers’ of Manx folk-lore. The list 
of these, according to Mr. A. W. Moore (Folk-Lore of the Isle 
of Man, p. 151), varies. An old Manxman’s names are as 
follows: Foillycan (Butterfly), Shellan (Bee), Jialgheer 
(Lizard), Craitnag (Bat), Cooag (Cuckoo), Clogh-ny-cleigh 
(Stonechat or, rather, Wheatear), Gollan-geayee (Swallow). 
(Kermode, Manz Note-Book, iv. p. 122.) A list furnished 
by Miss Morrison, which was supplied by one old resident 
and verified by two others, substitutes for Fozllycan, 
Jialgheer, and Shellan, the Owl (Hullad), the Corncrake 
(Hean-ravp), and the Snipe (?) (Coar-heddagh). ‘ I questioned 
the Snipes being among the number,’ writes Miss Morrison, 
‘but I was told: “Of course he is; you’ll never see a 
Snipe flying, till you start him out of a bog. Isn’t it sleep- 
ing he is all the time?”’’ 
The Swallow is in summer, as Mr. Kermode notes, 
generally distributed. He adds, ‘ plentiful’; and this may 
be the case in the best parts of Man, as the Lezayre and 
Braddan valleys, but it is the writer’s impression that in 
general with us the species is distinctly scarce, as com- 
pared with its abundance on the mainland. In May 1901 
we saw a few on the Calf, near the ‘Glen,’ the sunniest part 
of the islet. On 31st March 1897 I saw a single Swallow 
at Laxey Bridge. Mr. Kermode’s earliest date is 4th 
April (1879), at Lheakenny, Ramsey; it usually makes 
its appearance at least by the middle of that month, 
but is seldom general or common until near its end. For 
gti pean pei — 
