326 GLAREOLID^E. 



Glareola pratincola, Linn. 



8425{s. Butler, Deccan ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 425 ; 



Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 223. 

 THE COLLARED PRATINCOLE. 



Length, 9 ; wing, 675 to 7. 



Bill black ; gape red ; irides red-brown. 



Head, nape, back, scapulars and wing-coverts greyish-brown ; 

 throat and front of the neck white, slightly tinged ferruginous, en- 

 circled by a narrow black band from the base of the bill ; lores black ; 

 breast whitish-brown ; under wing-coverts chesnut ; lower surface 

 of the body white, tinged with reddish ; upper and under tail- 

 coverts white ; tail forked, basally white, tipped with dark-brown. 



The Collared Pratincole is not uncommon in Sind, where it 

 breeds, at the same time, place, and in a similar manner to the 

 preceding species. In fact they have been found breeding in 

 company. 



A single specimen only has been recorded from Ratnagiri. 



Glareola lactea, Tern. 



843. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 632 ; Butler, Deccan; 



Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 425 ; Barnes, Sind, Stray Feathers, 



Vol. X, p. 166 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 223. 

 THE SMALL SWALLOW PLOVER. 



Length, 6'5 ; expanse, 16'5 ; wing, 575; tail, 2 ; tarsus, 0'8 ; bill 

 from gape, 0'56. 



Bill black, gape red ; irides deep brown ; legs dusky-green. 



Upper plumage pale brownish-isabella color ; upper tail-coverts 

 white ; tail white, tipped with dark-brown for about one inch on 

 the centre feathers, diminishing to about one -quarter of an inch on 

 the outer ones; primaries brown, the first four conspicuously 

 white shafted ; the inner web white on the last four or five ; 

 secondaries all white, tipped with brown ; winglet dark-brown ; 

 chin, throat, and breast, pale Isabella color; belly and under 

 tail-coverts white -, axillaries and lower wing-coverts deep brown ; 

 feathered orbits white. 



The Small Swallow Plover has been recorded from Sholapur 

 by Mr. Davidson, who procured it on the banks of the Bhima. 

 It is not uncommon on the Indus, where I found a colony 

 breeding in April, 



The eggs are deposited in slight depressions on sand banks ; 

 they are usually four in number, are broadish oval in shape, 

 greenish-white or fawn in color, spotted, streaked and blotched 

 with various shades of olive and reddish-brown, with pale under- 

 lying clouds of dull purple. They measure T05 inches in length 

 by 0-82 in breadth. 



FAMILY, Charadridae. 



Bill straight, stout, and moderately thick in some, slender in 



