. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. CYPSELID^. 263. THE ALPINE SWIFT. Cypselus Mi^LBA (Linnagus). This large Swift was first noticed as one of our occasional visitors about midsummer 1829, when one was shot off the coast of Ireland; and since that time three or four more have been obtained, at long intervals, in that island. Upwards of a score of instances are on record from various parts of England : mostly from the southern half, though one of them occurred as far north as Alnmouth in Northumberland. No captures have as yet been made in Scotland. With the exception of a bird tak
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. CYPSELID^. 263. THE ALPINE SWIFT. Cypselus Mi^LBA (Linnagus). This large Swift was first noticed as one of our occasional visitors about midsummer 1829, when one was shot off the coast of Ireland; and since that time three or four more have been obtained, at long intervals, in that island. Upwards of a score of instances are on record from various parts of England : mostly from the southern half, though one of them occurred as far north as Alnmouth in Northumberland. No captures have as yet been made in Scotland. With the exception of a bird taken near Dublin in March 1833, the occurrences authenticated have been between June and October; and for several reasons, coupled with the fact that I once captured an example on board ship in the Bay of Biscay early in August, I incline to the belief that the birds which come to us are from the Pyrenees or the Cantabrian range. The Alpine Swift is a very rare visitor to Heligoland, Germany, and the north of France, although it breeds no further off than the cliffs at Nolay on the western frontier of Burgundy. It also nests sparsely in the Vosges and the Jura; while in some parts of Savoy, and more plentifully in Switzerland, it annually resorts to high crags and towers, arriving at the end of April and leaving in September or October. All the high mountains of Central and Southern Europe are frequented by it during the summer; as well as the ranges of North Africa, Asia Minor, Palestine, Persia, Turkestan, and India as far east as Assam. In the cold season, and during a considerable. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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