FAIRY MARTIN. 
to the top and all the nests were built true to that line. In their usual nesting- 
places I have not noticed such regularity of architecture.” 
Mr. C. F. Belcher says : 44 The cry of the Fairy Martin is a feeble twitter 
uttered on the wing ; it has not the sweetness nor the variety of the Welcome 
Swallow’s notes.” 
Mr. T. P. Austin’s notes from Cobbora, New South Wales, read : 44 This 
bird arrives in great numbers during the spring, and very soon sets to work 
upon nest-building in large communities in any convenient place, such as 
beneath large logs, within partly burnt-out large trees, beneath ledges, under 
bridges, but more often under overhanging banks of rivers and creeks and 
generally near water.” 
The two subspecies admitted in my “List” in 1913 must be maintained, 
one from the East and the other from the West, as : 
Lagenoplastes ariel ariel Gould. 
Eastern Australia. 
Lagenoplastes ariel conigravi Mathews. 
Western Australia. 
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