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from Inje-su to Kaizarieh) ; id. Ibis, 1878, p. 33 ; Butler, Str. F. 

 vii. p. 186 (1878); Bogd. B. Cauc. p. 163 (1879) ; Hume, Str. F. 

 viii. p. 112 (1879) ; Doig, t. c. pp. 371-375 (E. Narra, breeding) ; 

 Butler, Cat. B. Sindetc. p. 57 (1879) ; Goebel, J.f 0. 1879, p. 274 

 (Uman); Fimch, Reis. U'.-Sibirien, p. 134 (1*7'.): Ala-lvul) ; 

 Vidal, Str. F. ix. p. 78 (1880: S. Konkan; Ratnagiri) ; Butler, 

 Cat. B. S. Bomb. Pres. p. 72 (1880) ; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 120 

 (Afghanistan); Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 592 (1882: Smyrna; 

 Kartoum) ; B. 0. U. List Brit. B. p. 155 (1883) ; Saunders, 

 ed. Yarrell, Brit. B. iii. p. 231 (1883) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 29 

 (Caucasus) ; Tristr. Faun. $ Flor. Palest, p. 128 (1884) ; Radde, 

 Orn. Cauc. pp.42, 422(1884: breeding); Sharpe, ed. Bayard's 

 B. S. Afr. p. 052 (1884) ; Seeb. Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 09, pi. 24 



(1885) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1880, p. 492 (Fao) ; Gigl. Avif. Ital. p. 410 



(1886) ; Salvad. Elenc. Ucc. Ital. p. 204 (1886) ; Koenig, J.f. O. 

 1 888, p. 200 (Tunis) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 256 

 (1888) ; Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 517 (1889) ; Gigl. Avif. Ital., 

 1st Resoc. p. 625 (1889) ; id. 2nd Resoc. p. 652 (1890) ; Gates, ed. 

 Hume's Nests $ Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 318 (1890) ; Koenig, J. f O. 



1890, pp. 312, 451 (Madeira) ; Heine $ Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. 

 Hein. p. 338 (1890); Brasilia, Motr. (Orn. Croatica), p. 80 

 (1890); Frivaldsky, Ave* Hunqarice, p. 124(1891); Sharpe, Set. 

 Res. 2nd York. Miss., Ares, p. 139 (1891: Sarikol) ; Emin,J.f. O. 



1891, p. 338 (Ussongo to Lake Victoria) ; Madardsz, Erlaut. Ausst. 

 Unqar. Vogelf. p. 103 (1891); Albarda, J. f. O. 1892, p. 424 

 (Holland);' Blaauw, Notes Leyd. Mus. xv, p. 224 (1893: N. 

 Brabant) ; Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. B. pt. xxviii. (1894) ; Shelley, 

 Ibis, 1894, pp. 25,274 (Nyasa-Ld.). 



Pratincola glareola, Degland, Orn. Eur. ii. p. 107 (1849). 

 Dromochelidon natrophila, Landbeck, Jahresb. Ver. Nat. Wiirttemb. 



1846, p. 228. 

 Glareola limbata, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 538 (1844, ex Riipp. MSS.) ; 



Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 113, pi. 12 (1845) ; Strickl. Ann. Sf Mag. 



Nat. Hist. (2) ix. p. 348 (1852 : Kordofan). 



Adult male. General colour olive-brown with a slight, greenish 

 gloss ; wing-coverts liko the back, as well as the long inner second- 

 aries ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills greenish-black ; 

 the secondaries externally olive-brown and inclining to ashy whitish 

 at the ends ; upper tail-coverts white ; tail greatly forked, the 

 feathers blackish, with a green gloss and paler brown tips, the base 

 white, gradually increasing in extent towards tbe outer ones, the 

 whito occupying the basal two-thirds of the outermost ; head like 

 the back ; feathers below tho eye whitish ; fore part of cheeks and 

 throat sandy buff, surrounded by a white line, which is followed by 

 a black line running from the front part of the eye, which is 

 followed by a whitish shade; ear-coverts, hinder cheeks, sidos of 

 neck, fore neck, and breast dark ashy brown ; lower breast, abdomen, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts white ; axillaries and inner under 

 wing-coverts chestnut, the former with black bases ; remainder of 

 wing-coverts blackish, with a little patch of white near the lower 

 priinary-coverts : " bill dark brown, red at base behind the nostril ; 

 tarsi black ; iris brown ; no eye-ring '' (F. H. If. Guilleward). 

 Total length 8*8 inches, culuien - 8, wing 7'5, tail 3-8, tarsus 

 1-25. 



