1 90 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS. 



The Purple Martin {H. purpurea) of Ame- 

 rica is recorded to have been procured once at 

 Kingstown near Dublin ; and Yarrell included 

 it in his " History of British Birds," relying on 

 a statement that two specimens had been shot 

 at Kingsbury Reservoir, in Middlesex, in Sep- 

 tember, 1842. It has since been ascertained, 

 however, that he was misinformed on the sub- 

 ject. A specimen of this bird, 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 twenty- 

 eight shillings. With these exceptions, so far as 

 I am aware, no other instance of its occurrence 

 in Europe has been published. 



