SWALLOWS. HS) 
Fam. HIRUNDINID 4. 
PURPLE MARTIN. JHirundo purpurea, Linneus. 
Hab. North America generally. 
One, Kingstown, co. Dublin, 1840: Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, 
vol. 11. p. 267. 
One, Colne Bridge, Huddersfield, 1854: Hobkirk, ‘ Hudders- 
field, its Hist. and Nat. Hist.’ 1868, p. 218. 
Obs. Two others are mentioned by Yarrell as having 
been obtained at Kingsbury, Middlesex, in Sept. 1842 ; 
but he was misinformed on the subject. A specimen, 
said to have been shot near Macclesfield, was sold 
at Stevens’s, with other birds from the Macclesfield 
Museum, on the 14th June, 1861, and realized £1 8s. 
WHITE-BELLIED SWALLOW. AHirundo bicolor, Vieil- 
lot. 
Hab. North America, from Atlantic to Pacific. 
One near Derby, 1850: Wolley, Zoologist, 1853, p. 3806; 
Newton, P. Z. 8. 1860, p. 181; Zoologist, 1860, p. 7145. 
Fam. CYPSELID &. 
ALPINE SWIFT. Cypselus melba, Illiger. 
Hab. Central and Southern Europe, Western Asia, and 
Africa. 
One, Dover, 20th Aug. 1830: Note-book of a Naturalist, 
p. 226. 
