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INSESSOXES. 



F1SSIROSTRES. 



HIRUNDINID^. 



HIRUNDIN1DJS. 



THE ALPINE SWIFT, 



OR THE WHITE-BELLIED SWIFT. 



Cypselus alpinus. 



Cypsdus alpinus, Alpine Swift, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. 



p. 127, note. 



JENYNS, Brit. Yert. p. 159. 



White-bellied Swift, EYTON, Earer Brit. Birds, p. 17. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Martinet d ventre Uanc, 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 Thaiiet, and this preserved bird 



