ALPINE SWIFT. 



INSESSORES. 

 FISSIROSTRES. 



HIRUNDINIDjE. 



THE ALPINE SWIFT, 



OR THE WHITE-BELLIED SWIFT. 



Cypselus alpinus, Alpine Swift, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 127, note. 

 ,, ,, Jenvns, Brit. Vert. p. 159. 

 ,, White-hellied ,, Eyton, Rare Brit. Birds, p. 17. 

 ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. ii. 



Martinet a ventre blanc, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 433. 



Four examples of the White-bellied Swift are now re- 

 corded as having been obtained in the British Islands, and a 

 fifth may be referred to, which was killed a few miles from 

 land ofF Cape Clear, on the south-west point of the coast of 

 Ireland. The first of the four specimens was shot early in 

 June 1820 by the bailiff of R. Holford, Esq. at Kingsgate 

 in the Isle of Thanet, and this preserved bird being now in 



