WHITE-BELLIED SWIFT. 



CYPSELUS ME LB A {Linn.). 



Hirundo Melba, Linn. S. N. i. p. 345 (1766). 



Cypseliis melba, Naum. vi. p. 115; Macg. iii. p. 611 ; Yarr. 



cd. 4, ii. p. 372 ; Dresser, iv. p. 603. 

 Cypselus alpiuus, Hewitson, i. p. 269. 



Martinet a ventre blanc, French ; Alpensegler, German ; 

 Avion, Spanish. 



A locally common summer visitor to Central and 

 Southern Europe, rarely visiting the British Isles. 



