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1NSESSORES. 

 FISSIROSTRES. 



HIRUNDINID^E. 



THE ALPINE SWIFT, 



OB THE WHITE- BELLIED SWIFT. 



Cypselus alpinus. 



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

 JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 159. 



White-bellied EYTON, Rare Brit. Birds, p. 1 7. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. ii. 



Martinet a venire llanc, 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 oif 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 E. Holford, Esq. at 

 Kingsgate in the Isle of Thanet, and this preserved bird 

 being now in the possession of B. B. Hale, Esq. M. P. of 



