. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. HIRUNDINID/E. i6S. â .â jxWJ)' THE MARTIN. CHELfDON i^RBicA (Linnseus). The Martin, sometimes called the House-Martin to distinguish it from the Sand-Martin, usually arrives a few days later than the Swallow, and is of general distribution during the summer through- out the British Islands. In the north, however, it is rather local and even of irregular occurrence, while in some parts of the north-west it has become decidedly scarcer of late years. It seldom visits the Outer Hebrides, and only breeds sparingly in the Orkneys and Shetlands. In Ir
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. HIRUNDINID/E. i6S. â .â jxWJ)' THE MARTIN. CHELfDON i^RBicA (Linnseus). The Martin, sometimes called the House-Martin to distinguish it from the Sand-Martin, usually arrives a few days later than the Swallow, and is of general distribution during the summer through- out the British Islands. In the north, however, it is rather local and even of irregular occurrence, while in some parts of the north-west it has become decidedly scarcer of late years. It seldom visits the Outer Hebrides, and only breeds sparingly in the Orkneys and Shetlands. In Ireland it is local, and less common than the Swallow. By the middle of October the bulk of the Martins have left this country, but considerable flocks have been noticed up to the middle of November, and birdsâgenerally youngâhave been obtained in December. The Martin is a rare visitor to Iceland, but in the Fgeroes it is not uncommon on the spring migration. In Scandinavia it breeds as far north as about lat. 70°, but in Russia its range in that direction is less extensive ; while eastward our bird is not known beyond the valley of the Ob, its place being taken in Siberia by C. Idgopoda, a species with a shorter and squarer tail and entirely white upper tail-coverts. In the Himalayas the representative species, C. cashmiriensis, is smaller, with shorter and less deeply-forked tail; but our bird is found during the breeding-season in North-western India, Turkestan,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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