So rare a visitant to this country is the Alpine Swift that not more than a score of individuals have been met with since the first specimen was captured in 1820. In that year a bird of this species was killed at Kingsgate, in the Isle of Thanet, during the month of June, and since that time the following examples are recorded to have been met with:— One, Dover, Aug. 20, 1830; “Note-book of a Naturalist,” p. 226. One, Buckenham, Norfolk, Oct. 13, 1831; Yarrell, “Hist. Brit. Birds,” vol. ii. p. 266. One, Rathfarnham, near Dublin, March, 1833; “Dublin Penny Journal,” March, 1833. Yarrell, “Hist. Brit. Birds,” vol. ii. p. 266. One, Saffron Walden, Essex, July, 1838; Macgillivray, “Hist. Brit. Birds,” iii. p. 613. One, Leicester, Sept. 23, 1839; Macgillivray, “Hist. Brit. Birds,” iii. p. 613. One, seen forty miles west of Land’s End, in June, 1842; Couch, “Cornish Fauna,” p. 147. One, Cambridge, May, 1844; E. B. Fitton, “Zoologist,” 1845, p. 1191. One, near Doneraile, co. Cork, June, 1844; Thompson, “Nat. Hist. Ireland” (Birds), vol. i. p. 418. One, St. Leonard’s-on-Sea, Oct., 1851; Ellman, “Zoologist,” 1852, p. 3330. One, Mylor, Cornwall, 1859; Bullimore, “Cornish Fauna,” p. 24. One, Hulme, near Manchester, Oct. 18, 1863; Carter, “Zoologist,” 1863, p. 8846. One seen at Kingsbury Reservoir, Aug., 1841, and one shot near Reading the next day; Harting, “Birds of Middlesex,” p. 128. One, near Lough Neagh, May, 1866; Howard Saunders, “Zoologist,” 1866, p. 389. One, near Weston-super-Mare; Cecil Smith, “Birds of Somersetshire,” p. 287. Several seen, Isle of Arran, July, 1866; H. Blake Knox, “Zoologist,” 1866, p. 456. Several seen, Achill Island; H. Blake Knox, “Zoologist,” 1866, p. 523. One, near the Lizard, Cornwall; Rodd, “List of the Birds of Cornwall,” 2nd ed. p. 23. One, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Sept. 8, 1870; Hele, “The Field,” Sept. 17, 1870. One seen, Colchester, June 8, 1871; Dr. Bree, “The Field,” June 17, 1871. One seen, South Point, Durham, July 24, 1871; G. E. Crawhall, “The Field,” Aug. 5, 1871. In all the above instances the birds were shot, except where stated to have been seen only. The term “Alpine Swift” is unfortunately a misnomer, since the bird is in no way confined to the immediate neighbourhood of the Alps. The name “White-bellied Swift” is not inappropriate, as indicating a peculiarity which distinguishes it from the common species. It is a migratory bird, like the last-named, and, like it, visits the Cape of Good Hope in winter, and penetrates into North-west India.