21 JUNE 1935, Page 16

More Swallows An interesting sequel to a recent comment on

the fewness of the swallows appears in the Bath Chronicle, which is one of the most pleasantly edited of local papers. A few swallows were with us very early, but the great flocks that usually followed some weeks later had not been seen. They have now come at a very late date. Last Sunday the inmates of Dr. Bromet's home on the outskirts of Bath heard a loud and voluble twittering. The doctor went out and found an excited congregation of swallows, which had evidently just arrived. It seemed, he said, as if the more punctual birds were giving the late arrivals an eager welcome. It is curious that the swallows, with several other species, usually appear first towards the west of England. One line of migration seems to be Portugal and Falmouth and directly northwards, though the birds soon begin to fan out and fill the emptier districts across the breadth of England.