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same colour as the back ; feathers on the crop and flanks barred 

 with brown, and no white ends to the upper tail-coverts. 



Fig. Sharpe and Dresser, B. of Eur. part xiii. 



222. EupoDOTis ARABS (Liun.). Arabian Bustard. 



Von Heuglin (Syst. Ueb. p. 53) mentions this species as 

 being met with singly in Egypt. 



General coloiu: sandy, all the feathers delicately pencilled 

 with darker brown ; quills blackish ; the greater coverts and 

 outer secondaries tipped with white, forming an oblique bar 

 across the wing, some of the lesser coverts exhibiting an 

 obsolete white spot ; tail greyish brown, tipped with white, 

 before which is a subterminal bar of brown pencilled vrith 

 sandy, and across the middle of the tail is a broad white band ; 

 crown of the head and whole of the neck whitish, varied with 

 minute transverse hues of blackish ; a broad black band ex- 

 tending from above the eye backwards, and forming a crest 

 where it joins the nape ; eyebrow whitish ; under surface of 

 the body white, the outermost under wing-coverts pencilled 

 with brown; vent and under taU-coverts brownish, with 

 central white streaks ; bill yellowish, brownish above the 

 nostril ; feet yellowish ; nails horn -brown. 



Total length 34 inches ; culmen 3'6 ; wing 14'5 ; tail 11 ; 

 tarsus 8 "5. 



Fam. CHARADRIID^. 



223. Glareola PRATiM COLA, Linn. Collared Pratincole. 



This Pratincole arrives in Egypt in great numbers about 

 the middle of April. I first met with it near Assouan on 



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