RARER BRITISH BIRDS. 1? 



WHITE-BELLIED SWIFT. 



Cypselus Alpinus. TEMMINCK. 



THIS addition to our Fauna may be accounted one of the 

 rarest of our occasional visitants, not above three specimens 

 having been recorded as killed in the United Kingdom. The 

 following are those to which we allude, viz. One mentioned 

 by Mr. Selby, in the " Transactions of the Northumberland 

 Newcastle and Durham Natural History Society;" another no- 

 ticed by Mr. Gould, in his admirable work, " The Birds of 

 Europe," as killed by the gardener of R. Holford, Esq. on his 

 estate, at Kingsgate, near Margate; and a third mentioned in 

 the "Proceedings of the Zoological Society for April 22nd, 

 1834," as new to the Irish Fauna, by Mr. Thompson, killed at 

 Rathfarnham, and preserved in the collection of W. Warren, 

 Esq. The specimen he states to have been received by Mr. 

 Warren in a perfectly fresh state. 



The White-bellied Swift is an inhabitant chiefly of the warmer 

 and more southern parts of the Continent. According to Tem- 

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