oO GLAREOLA PRATLNCOLA. 



short ; the head rather small, ovato-oblong, rather depressed 

 in front. The bill is short, rather stout, compressed toward 

 the end, arcuate, and pointed ; the nasal groove rather wide 

 and feathered ; the gape-line arcuate, and commencing under 

 the eyes. The nostrils oblong, oblique, in the fore part of 

 the nasal groove. The eyes large. The feet are of moderate 

 length, very slender ; the tibia and tarsus reticulate ; the 

 former bare for five-twelfths of an inch. The first toe is 

 very small, somewhat elevated, with five scutella ; the inner 

 with fifteen, the third twenty-two, the fourth eighteen ; the 

 outer longer than the inner, and connected by a small basal 

 web with the middle toe, which is much longer. The claws 

 are somewhat arched, slender, pointed ; that of the middle 

 toe very long, with its inner edge somewhat pectinate. 



The plumage is rather compact ; the feathers ovate, 

 rounded, and of moderate size. The wings are very long, 

 narrow, and pointed, with twenty-five quills ; the primaries 

 tapering, the first longest, the rest rapidly decreasing; the 

 outer secondaries obliquely rounded and somewhat emargi- 

 nate, the inner tapering, but rounded, and of moderate 

 length. The tail is deeply forked, of twelve feathers, of 

 which the lateral are two inches longer than the medial. 



The bill is black, at the base carmine-red, as are the 

 margins of the eyelids; the feet dusky-grey. The general 

 colour of the upper parts is greyish-brown, with a tinge of 

 green. The upper tail-coverts white ; the tail-feathers white 

 at the base, dark-brown at the end. The quills are blackish- 

 brown, glossed with green, the inner like the back. On the 

 throat is a large patch of pale reddish-yellow, margined by 

 two narrow bands, the inner white, the outer brownish- 

 black, which ascend to the eye ; the space between which 

 and the bill is blackish-brown. The sides of the neck, its 

 lower part in front, a portion of the breast, and of the sides 

 of the body are of the same greyish-brown as the back, but 

 paler ; the rest of the lower parts white, anteriorly tinged 

 with red. The axillar feathers and middle lower wing- 

 coverts are of a deep brownish-red ; the larger and those 

 along the edge of the wing brownish-grey, the latter mixed 

 with white. 



