. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North America; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. 354 NOUTII AMKHK'AN Cotyle riparia. A critirjil oxiiiniiiiitioii Iims iaih'etween Euro- pean ami Anu'iii'an si»t'cinu'ns of this Idnl. Habits. The coiuniou Jiank Swallow as we know it, or Sand Martin as it is called in En«.;land, is nearly or quite e()snioi>olitan in its distribution. Found tliroui^liout Kuroi>e in the sea- s(tn of reproduction, and in ])()rtions of Africa in the winter months, it is ei[
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North America; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. 354 NOUTII AMKHK'AN Cotyle riparia. A critirjil oxiiiniiiiitioii Iims iaih'etween Euro- pean ami Anu'iii'an si»t'cinu'ns of this Idnl. Habits. The coiuniou Jiank Swallow as we know it, or Sand Martin as it is called in En«.;land, is nearly or quite e()snioi>olitan in its distribution. Found tliroui^liout Kuroi>e in the sea- s(tn of reproduction, and in ])()rtions of Africa in the winter months, it is ei[ually eonmion throughout Xorth America in the sunnner, and proh- ahlv winters in Mexico and in ('en- tral and South America, though it is not mentioned by Sumichrast as a bird of Vera Cruz. It is said to oc- cur in various parts of the continent of Africa, and in Europe it extends its mii^rations to the extreme north- ern regions. It has also been met with in India and in Siberia. Mr. Salvin obtained several specimens at Duenas, (Juatemala, in September, 1801, having ])reviously (jbserved it about the Lake of Yzabah. On both continents it is somewhat local in its distribution, in favorable localities being (piite abundant, antl in others not known to exist. It is an early s])ring visitant wlierever found, ap])earing in England by the 24tli of March, and even in our high Arctic regions early in May, often in such in- clement weather that it is obliged to take refuge in holes. Mr. Dall met with this species in Alaska, in favj)rable situations, in innnense numbers. He counted on the lace of one sand-blufl' over seven hundred nest-holes made by these birds, and all of them a}>parently occupied, so that the blulf presented the appearance of an immense honeycomb alive with bees. He states that it takes the bird four days to excavate its nest. Ilev. F. 0. Morris, on the other hand, who has closely watched their operations in Eng- land, says that it recjuires a fortnight, and th
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