SWALLOWS. 125 



Fam. HIRUNDINID^. 



PTJEPLE MAETIN. Eirimdo purpv/rea, Linnaeus. 

 Hab. North America generally. 



One, Kingstown, co. Dublin, 1840 : Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, 



vol. ii. p. 267. 

 One, Colne Bridge, Huddersfield, 1854 : Hobkirk, ' Hudders- 



field, its Hist, and Nat. Hist.' 1868, p. 218. 



Ohs. 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. Hirwndo bicolor, Vieil- 



lot. 



Hab. North America, from Atlantic to Pacific. 



One near Derby, 1850 : WoUey, Zoologist, 1853, p. 3806 ; 

 Newton, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 131 ; Zoologist, 1860, p. 7145. 



Fam. CYPSELIDtE. 



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. 



