sand martin

Historical Examples of sand martin

• The sand-martin, the house-martin's cousin, prefers the side of a cliff.

  The Children's Book of London

  Geraldine Edith Mitton

• The sand-martin arrives much about the same time with the swallow, and lays, as she does, from four to six white eggs.

  The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2

  Gilbert White

• The sand-martin has several broods in the year, and is more regular than other Hirundinidae in its departure for the south.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 7

  Various

• Perhaps the word "build" is scarcely the right one, inasmuch as the nest is even more simple than that of the sand-martin.

  Bible Animals;

  J. G. Wood

• The Indian sand-martin (Cotile sinensis) is, I believe, the smallest of the swallow tribe.

  Jungle Folk

  Douglas Dewar