216 GLAREOLID^E. 



1426. Glareola pratincola. The Collared Pratincole. 



Hirundo pratincola, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 345 (1766). 



Glareola pratincola, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 163; Blanf. S. F. iv, 



p. 507 ; Sutler, S. F. vii, p. 186 ; ix, p. 425 ; Hume, Cat. no. 



842 bis ; Doig, S. F. viii, p. 375 ; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 78 ; Swinhoe, 



Ibis, 1882, p. 120 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 326 ; Seebohm, Charadr. 



p. 256 ; Oates in Humes N. $ E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 318 ; Sharpe, Cat. 



B. M. xxiv, p. 53. 



This species is very similar to G. orientalis, but may be dis- 

 tinguished by its longer, more deeply forked tail, the outer 

 rectrices exceeding the middle pair'as a rule by 2 inches, and 

 scarcely ever by less than 1|. Generally, too, the tips of the 

 secondaries are white in the present species, and the throat and 

 lower breast are less strongly tinged with rufous. 



Length 9 ; tail to end of outer feathers 4-3 ; wing 7*5 ; tarsus 

 1*2 ; bill from gape 1. 



Distribution. A migratory bird, occurring in summer in Central 

 and Southern Europe, and throughout a large area in Western 

 and Central Asia, wintering in Africa. It has been met with 

 breeding in Sind, in company with G. orientalis, by Mr. S. Doig, 

 and stragglers have been recorded from Allahabad, the Deccan, 

 and Ratnagiri. 



Habits similar to those of the last species. 



1427. Glareola lactea. The Small Indian Pratincole or 

 Swallow-Plover. 



Glareola lactea, Temm. Man. d'Orn. ed. 2, ii, p. 503 (1820) ; 

 Blyth, Cat. p. 259 ; Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 632 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1868, 

 p. 388; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, p. 273 ; Hume, N. 

 $ E. p. 568 ; id. S. F. iii, p. 179 ; Blyth fy Wald. Birds Burm. 

 p. 154 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv, p. 338 ; Wardl.-Rams. Ibis, 1877, 

 p. 469 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 454 ; Ball, S. F. vii, p. 226 ; 

 Cripps, ibid. p. 299 ; Hume, Cat. no. 843 : Legge, Birds Ceyl. 

 p. 984; Butler, S. F. ix, p. 425; Reid, S. F. x, p. 64; Barnes, 

 ibid. p. 166 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 363 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 326 ; 

 Hume fy Cripps, S. F. xi, p. 312 ; Seebohm, Charadr. p. 264 ; 

 Littledale, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. i, p. 200 ; Oates in Hume's N. # 

 E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 320 ; Barnes, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. vi, p. 19, 

 fig. 843. 



Galachrysea lactea, Bonap. C. R. xliii, p. 419. 



Galactochrysea lactea, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. 65. 



Coloration. Upper plumage throughout pale sandy grey : fore- 

 head brown, and a band from the eye along the lower edge of the 

 lores black ; primary-coverts and primaries blackish, all the pri- 

 maries except the first two with part of the inner web white, and 

 some of the later primaries with part of the edge of the outer web 

 also white : secondaries white, with blackish-brown ends that 

 dimmish in breadth on the inner quills ; upper tail-coverts white ; 

 tail white at base, blackish towards the end, the black ends much 

 longer on the middle rectrices ; the tips, except on the outer pair 

 of tail-feathers, pale brown and white ; chin white ; throat, fore 

 neck, and upper breast more or less smoky brown, tinged with 



