A'ON-INDIGEXOUS BRITISH BIRDS. 351 



* RED-RUMPED SWALLOW. 



HiRUNDO RUFULA, Tcniviinck. 



One British record. Mr. Rodd states that an example 

 of this species was seen by him at Penzance. This 

 evidence is not sufficient to allow of the species claiming 

 a place in the British list. It is a migratory bird. 

 Habitat : South-eastern Europe, Asia Minor, and Pales- 

 tine, in summer ; Eastern Africa in winter. It has been 

 recorded from Heligoland. 



=^ A M E R I C A N TREE S W A L L O W. 



TACHYCIXETA BICOLOR {Vieillot). 



One British record. A migratory species, and visiting 

 the Arctic regions of America in summer. I see nothing 

 improbable in a stray individual reaching our shores via 

 Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroes, or even by way of 

 Asia. Habitat : North America up to the Arctic regions 

 in summer ; West Indies, Central and South America 

 in winter. 



BLUE-TAILED BEE-EATER. 



MEROPS PHiLippiNUS, Li7inceus. 



One British record. A sedentary species inhabiting an 

 area from which it is impossible to believe any individual 

 could by the remotest chance reach our islands unaided 

 by man. Probably an escape, or a foreign skin passed 

 off as British. Habitat: South-eastern Asia from India 

 and South China to the Malay Archipelago. 



