GLAREOLID^ GLAREOLA 



650, 855 (1884); SeeboJnn, Ibis, 1887, p. 342; id. Geogr. Uistr. 



Charadr. p. 261 (1888) ; Sliarpc, Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. 57 (1896) ; 



Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 195 (1896) ; Woodward Bros., Natal B. p. 181 



(1899); Reiclienow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 145 (1900); Whitehead,Ibis, 1903, 



p. 236 ; Sliarpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 12 [Deelfontein] . 

 Glareola nordrnanni, Fischer, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou ii, p. 314 



(1842) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1864, p. 354 [Natal] ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 



291 (1867) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 254, pi. viii ; Layard, Ibis, ' 1869, 



p. 75 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 263, 1877, p. 347, 1884, p. 232 ; Bui-Mey, 



Ibis, 1874, p. 388 ; Oakley, Trans. S. A. Phil. Soc. ii, p. 49 (1881) ; 



Holub &? Pelz. Orn. Siid-Afr. p. 241 (1882) ; Bryden, Nat. and Sport, 



p. 104 (1897). 

 " Klein Springhaan Vogel " of Dutch, " Little Locust Bird," of the 



English (a name applied also to the Wattled Starling, 



carunculatus). " Uwhamba " of the Zulus (Woodward). 



PIG. 107.^ Head of Glareola melanoptera. x {i. 



Description. Adult. Very similar to G. pratincola, but at once 

 distinguished by the colour of the axillaries and under wing-coverts, 

 which are black and not chestnut. 



Iris dark brown ; bill black, the base and edges of the mandible 

 red ; feet dusky. 



Length 10-75 ; wing 7'5 ; tail, outer feather 4-35, middle feather 

 2-5 ; culmen 0-53 ; tarsus 1-45. 



A young bird has pale edgings to most of the feathers ; the throat 

 is whitish with dark shaft lines and is not circumscribed by the 

 dark line present in the adult ; the tail is not so forked, the differ- 

 ence in length between the inner and outer feathers being about an 

 inch only ; axillaries black margined with chestnut. 



Distribution. Nordmann's Pratincole breeds in South-west 



