. Britain's birds and their nests . ermanentlyset in. Is it not more reasonable to suppose that theseearly examples perished, and that others took their placeslater ? To touch on another point: we hear of a Romanknight who had the news of the chariot races at Romecarried to his friends at his country house one hundredand thirty miles away by liberating Swallows broughtfrom there and dyed the colour of the winner. RecentlySwallows have been experimentally used as homers inFrance, and one bird is reported to have maintained anaverage pace of one hundred and six miles an hour forone hundred and s
. Britain's birds and their nests . ermanentlyset in. Is it not more reasonable to suppose that theseearly examples perished, and that others took their placeslater ? To touch on another point: we hear of a Romanknight who had the news of the chariot races at Romecarried to his friends at his country house one hundredand thirty miles away by liberating Swallows broughtfrom there and dyed the colour of the winner. RecentlySwallows have been experimentally used as homers inFrance, and one bird is reported to have maintained anaverage pace of one hundred and six miles an hour forone hundred and sixty miles. THE MARTIN (Chelidon urbica).Plate 92. Like the MaitletBuilds in the weather on the outward wall The Martin—the Martlet of Heraldry and of olderwriters, frequently called the House-Martin to avoidconfusion with the Sand-Martin—can be readily distin-guished from its ally the Swallow by the absence of thelong tail-feathers, and by the greater proportion of whitein its plumage : the throat and entire imder-parts are of. S^ Plate 92. ^\.\KY\^—Chelidon urbica. Length, 5-3 in. ; wing, 4-25 in. [ : Hirundinida;.]2 1 272 BRITAIN^S BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS. 273 this colour, and a white patch on the ramp is noticeableat all times, but is especially conspicuous when the birdis clinging to a house-wall, collecting mud at a roadsidepuddle, or flying below the observer. It arrives in Britain about a week after the Swallow,early in April in the south, but three or four weeks laterin the north. Although becoming scarcer in Ireland andin the north of Scotland, it is found over the greaterpart of the British Isles until the middle of this time it disappears from the more northerndistricts, but is found for a fall month longer in thesouth of England. After some weeks in which it israrely seen, it not infrequently reappears in some numbersfor a short time in November, while individuals areoccasionally seen in December. This fact had by nomeans escaped the ob
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