256 GLAREOLA MEGAPODA. 



NOTE XX. 



A SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE ON GLAREOLA 

 MEGAPODA. 



J. BUTTIKOPER. 



Just after the preceding Note had left the press, I got 

 a letter from Dr. H. Guillemard , at Cambridge , about the 

 type of Glareola megapoda in the British Museum. During 

 his visit to the Leyden Museum some weeks ago, I called 

 his attention to my Liberian Pratincoles, the specific rank 

 of which was still doubtful in a certain degree. Dr. Guil- 

 lemard now was kind enough to examine the type in the 

 British Museum and to send me the following informations : 



»The occipital band is of the same size and rusty 

 red colour as in your birds. You gave me the following 

 as the measurements of your Glareola : 



Wing 13,7—14,4 cm.; tarsus 1,8; bill 1,0. 



Those of the British Museum bird are: 

 Wing 14,9 cm.; tarsus 2,0; bill 1,0." 



As Mr. Sharpe, who also examined the type of G. me- 

 gapoda for me (see p. 233) , did not mention its size nor 

 the color of its occipital band, I thought it not without 

 interest to publish the above informations of Dr. Guillemard. 



Leyden Museum, June 1885. 



Notes from tlie Leyden IMuseutn, "Vol. VU. 



