RARER BRITISH BIRDS. 
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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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