470 

 GRALLATORES. 



CHARADRIIDJ;. 



CHARADRIIDJS. 



THE COLLARED PRATINCOLE. 



Glareola torquata. 



Olareola Austriaca, Austrian Pratincole, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 110. 

 MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. 



p. 309. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 94. 



Collared SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. 



p. 213. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 216. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Glareole a collier, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. 

 p. 500. 



Hirundo Pratincola, 

 Glareola torquata, 



Pratincola, 

 torquata, 



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. 



