BLACK- WINGED PRATINCOLE 371 



FamHy GLAREOLID^. 

 Genus GLAREOLA, Brisson. 

 COLLARED PRATINCOLE. 



Glareola pratincola (Linnaeus). S.N.^ i., p. 345 

 (1766). 



On the authority of the Rev. C. H. Fielding, who says : 

 " There is a stuffed specimen of the Pratincole in Lord 

 Clifton's collection, which was the property of Mr. Sivey, 

 a bird-stuffer in Gravesend, who declared it to have been 

 killed in the county." 



The second record is that given by Dr. N. F. Ticehurst 

 {Zoologist, 1903, p. 420), who states that on " May 30, 

 1903, a male Collared Pratincole {Glareola pratincola) was 

 shot by Mr. Southerden at Jury Gap, in Romney Marsh. 

 It was seen by me in the flesh, and exhibited at the 

 British Ornithologists' Club (vide Bulletin of the B.O.C., 

 xcix.). This is probably the first occurrence of this species 

 in Kent." This latter specimen is now in the possession 

 of Mr. Fleetwood Ashburnham, of Broomham Park, 

 Sussex. 



BLACK-WINGED PRATINCOLE. 



Glareola mela?ioptera, Nordm. Soc. Imp. Mosc, 

 1842, t. 2. 



For the first notice of the occurrence of this species in 

 Kent zoologists are indebted to Dr. N. F. Ticehurst, 

 who states that on "June 1 (1903) a male Black-winged 



