NIGHTJAR 237 



WHITE-BELLIED SWIFT. 



Cypselus inelha (Liniiceus). >S'.A^., i., p. 44-3 (170(3). 

 Alpine Swift. 



There are three records of the occarrencc of this 

 species in Kent. 



The first White-beUied Swift was shot in the Isle of 

 Thanet in June, 1820, by E. Holford, Esq.'s, bailiff. This 

 bird, according to Professor Xewton in Yarrell's British 

 Birds, was seen by Mr. J. Gould in 1832, and it subse- 

 quently passed into the possession of Mr. E. B. Hale, 

 who lent it for the illustration of the above work. 



The second specimen (Notebook of a Naturalist, p. 22G) 

 flew into a room at Dover on August 20, 1830, and was 

 secured ; and Professor Newton says this statement was 

 not pubhshed till 1845. 



Mr. J. H. Gurney (Zoologist, 1886, p. 5046), after 

 giving a short notice of this species, says : " While 

 writing on this bird, I may as well mention a specimen 

 which has not been recorded, which was seen by the 

 Eev. J. Pemberton Bartlett in Kent, in June, 1871." 



Family CAPRIMULGID^. 



Genus CAPRIMULGUS, Linnteus. 



NIGHTJAE. 



Caprimulgus europcEUS, Linnaeus. >S'.A^., i., p. 340 



(1766). 



Goatsucker, Boys, 1792 ; Night-Hawk, Fern-Owl. 



In the more open woods in Kent the Night-Hawk, as 

 it is usually called, makes its home, but is by no means 



