CURSORIUS. GLAREOLA. 207 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, p. 34; Sounders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 533. 



Gallicus = of the Gauls. Gmelin seems to have thought the bird only 

 occurred- in France. 



Distribution in the British Islands. An Occasional Visitor. 

 About twenty have been recorded in England, chiefly from 

 the eastern and southern counties from Northumberland to 

 Kent and westwards to Cornwall ; it has also occurred in 

 Leicestershire and Cumberland, twice in Wales, and once 

 in Scotland. In Ireland it has not been met with. 



General Distribution. The Cream-coloured Courser breeds 

 in the Canary Islands, the (Jape Verde Islands, the desert 

 countries of north Africa, Arabia, Persia, and Afghanistan, 

 ranging in winter to north-west India. It visits southern 

 Europe occasionally, and has occurred as far west as France, 

 Belgium, Holland, Germany, Heligoland, and Finland. It 

 is represented by an allied form in Somaliland. 



Family GLAREOLID^B. 



Genus GLAREOLA B-risson, Orn. v. 17GO, p. 141. 

 Type : G. pratincola (Linn.). 



Glareola = a diminutive from glared = gravel, from the fact of the bird 

 haunting gravelly places. 



Glareola pratincola, COLLARED PRATINCOLE. 

 Hirundo pratincola Limui'tis, Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i. 

 1766, p. 345 : Austria. 



Glareola pratincola (Linn.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 155; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, p. 53; Sounders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 531. 



'Pratineold, from pr(Hi<m A meadow, and incfila = an inhabitant. Prom 

 the birds frequenting the open meadows* of Austria (Kramer, Elench. Veg. et 

 Anim. per Austrian! obs. 1756. p. 381). 



