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WHITE - BELLIED SWALLOW. Hirundo bicotor, 

 Vieillot. Length, 5-3 in. ; bill, 0-:?) in. ; wing, 4*5 in. ; 

 tarsus, 0'4 in. 



Hah. North America, from Atlantic to Pacific, winter- 

 ing in Central America to Guatemala. 



One near Derby, 1850 : Wolley, Zool, 1853, p. 3800 ; New- 

 ton, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1860, p. 131 ; Zool, 1860, p. 7145. 



Order IIL PICARIiE 

 Fam. CYPSELID^. 



ALPINE SW^IFT. Cypselus melha (Linnauis). Length, 

 8'5 in. ; bill, 0*4 in. ; wing, 8-3 in. : tarsus, 0'6 in. ; 

 extent of wing, 18 in. 



Hah. Central and Southern Europe, Western Asia, and 

 Africa in winter. 



One, Dover, Aug. 20, 1830 : " Note-book of a Naturalist," 

 p. 226. 



One, Buckenham, Norfolk, Fulcher, Sept. 1831; Old 

 Buckenham, near Attleborough, Oct. 13, 1831 : Rennie's 

 Field Nat. Mag., vol. i. pp. 172, 173, with figure. 



One, Rathfarnham, near Dublin, March 1833 : Bidtlin 

 Penny Journal, 1833 ; Yarrell, op. cit. 



One, Angel Hill, Bury St. Edmunds, 1835 : Babington, 

 " Birds of Suffolk," p. 23G. 



One, Saffron Walden, Essex, July 1838 : Macgillivray, 

 " Hist. Brit. Birds," vol. iii. p. 613 ; Christy, p. 145. 



One, Leicester, Sept. 23, 1839 : Macgillivray, op. cit. 



One seen, Kingsbury Reservoir, Aug. 1841 : and one re- 

 ported by W. Wheeler of Reading as shot next day 

 at Chobham, Surrey : Harting, " Birds of Middlesex," 

 p. 128. But see correction, Zool, 1889, p. 415. Mr. 

 Gurney suggests this may be the bird recorded by 



