374 CYPSELID.E. 



stated by Mr. Sterland (Zool. 1879, p. 489). From October 

 16th to 18th, 1863, one was noticed in St. Mary's church at 

 Hulme near Manchester, which, on the latter day, fell ex- 

 hausted while service was being performed (Zool. p. 8955). 

 On September 8th, 1870, one of two birds of this species, 

 flying into a house at Aldeburgh, was killed and examined 

 by Mr. Hele (Trans. Norf. and Norw. Nat. Soc. 1872-73, 

 p. 117) ; and an immature example, now in Mr. Gurney's 

 collection, was shot at Breydon in Norfolk, on September 

 9th, 1872 (Zool. s.s. pp. 3319, 5046). While, lastly, Mr. H. 

 E. Eawson has recorded (Zool. 1880, p. 108) one shot, while 

 flying with two more, near Ilfracombe, October 4th, 1876.* 



This bird regularly visits Europe from Africa, in which 

 quarter of the globe (though, during our winter, it is abun- 

 dant so far as the Cape of Good Hope) it only seems to breed 

 in Algeria. It is therefore as truly a native of Europe as 

 the preceding species, but its breeding-range is entirely con- 

 fined to the mountainous districts of the southern and central 

 parts of the continent, within which limits it generally makes 

 its nest in the church-towers and other lofty buildings rather 

 than in rocky cliffs. All the examples that occur in Britain 

 and the northern parts of Europe must be regarded as strag- 

 glers from their home. Several have been obtained in Heli- 

 goland, but one only, and that so long ago as 1804, in Den- 

 mark. Even in central, and still more in northern, Germany 



* This species is said to have been observed on several other occasions, though 

 the specimens were not procured. Blyth says (Mag. N. H. vii. p. 346) that in 

 May 1834 he saw some examples in company with the common species in Surrey, 

 but so high as to be out of gunshot. Couch in 1838 (Corn. Fauna, i. p. 20) 

 had been informed, on probable evidence, of two instances of its occurrence in 

 Cornwall. According to Macgillivray, Mr. Harley of Leicester saw an individual 

 Sept. 23d, 1839. One is said to have been observed at Kingsbury in August 

 1841, which may possibly have been the bird soon after killed at Wokingham. 

 In May 1844, one is supposed (Zool. p. 1191) to have been twice seen near Cam- 

 bridge. Mr. Blake-Knox records (Zool. s.s. pp. 456, 523) the observation of 

 this species at Achill and Arran on the west coast of Ireland. According to 

 Mr. Halting, an example is said to have been observed at Colchester June 8th, 

 1871, and in the same month it is believed to have been seen twice near Norwich 

 by Mr. Stevenson (Trans. Norf. and Norw. Nat. Soc. ut supra), and in Kent by 

 Mr. Bartlett (Zool. s.s. p. 5046), as well as on the succeeding July 24th at 

 Souter Point on the coast of Durham (op. cit. p. 2767). 



