PRATINCOLE. 153 



PRATINCOLE. 



COLLARED PRATINCOLE. AUSTRIAN PRATINCOLE. 

 PLATE CXLVIII. FIGURES I, II. 



Glareola torquata, MEYER. 



Glareola Austriaca, LATHAM. 



Hirundo marina, RAY. 



Hirundo Pratincola, LIKN^EUS. GMELIN. 



A slight depression in the soil serves for a nest, 

 or it is placed, Selby says, among rushes or other 

 thick herbage. Many nests are often made not far 

 from each other. 



The eggs, four in number, are spotted with brown, 

 or pale buff stone-colour with small round spots of 

 bluish-grey and dull black. 



One is of a light greenish ground, marked all 

 over with brown spots, many of them run together in 

 waved streaks. 



A second is of a very light greyish green ground, 

 irregularly marked over with darker and lighter brown 

 spots and waves. 



A third is of a pale yellowish green ground, with 

 larger and smaller dark and light brown markings. 



A fourth has a rich dark green ground, marked 

 all over with dark blackish-brown marks, spots, and 

 streaks. 



VOL. II. X 



