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PRATINCOLE, As Te Tau: 
COLLARED PRATINCOLE. 
GULAREOLA TORQUATA, Hem. 
A very few individuals of this species have been 
taken in this country. It inhabits the borders of 
rivers, lakes, and inland seas, particularly such 
as form extensive marshes covered with reeds and 
other aquatic herbage. Its flight is singu- 
larly rapid, even surpassing that of the Swallow 
tribe. Its food consists of flies, beetles, aquatic 
insects, &c.; and it captures its prey not only upon 
the wing, but upon the ground, being capable of 
running with great celerity. The Pratincole builds 
amongst the rushes and other thick herbage, and 
lays from four to six eggs of a pale buffy stone 
colour, marked with bluish grey and dull black 
blotches. The egg, by its colour and markings, 
much resembles that of the Ring Plover. 
PUPRPAN, 3S tes VPA fh Ome 
FRATERCULA ARcTICcA, Flem, 
In the end of spring the individuals of this 
species make their appearance about the islands 
and headlands on which they breed, on various 
