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BRITISH BIRDS. 



GRALLATOBES. 



RALLJDJE. 



THE COLLARED PRATINCOLE. 



Glareola Austriaca, Austrian Pratincole, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 110. 

 ,, ,, ,, ,, Mont. Supp. Ornith. Diet. 



Hirundo Pratincola, 

 Glareola tnrquata, 



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,, Pratincola, 



,, torquata. 



Collared 



Glar6ole a collier, 



Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 309. 

 Flem. Brit. An. p. 94. 

 Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 213. 

 Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 216. 

 Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. vii. 

 Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 500. 



Glareola. Generic Characters, — Beak short, convex, compressed towards 

 the point, the upper mandible curved throughout the distal half of its length. 

 Nostrils basal, lateral, pierced obliquely. Legs bare for a short space above 

 the tarsal joint ; long and rather slender ; three toes in front, one behind ; 

 the middle toe united by a short membrane to the outer toe ; the inner toe 

 free ; the hind toe articulated upon the tarsus ; claws long and subulate- 

 Wings very long, the first quill-feather considerably the longest. 



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