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PRATINCOLE. 



COLLARED PRATINCOLE. AUSTRIAN PRATINCOLE. 



Glareola torquata, MEYER. 



" austriaca, LATHAM. 



Hirundo marina, RAY. 



" pratincola, LINNAEUS. GMELIX. 



Glareola ? Torquatc 



THE Pratincole is abundant on the continent of Europe 

 in Hungary, Dalmatia, Turkey, and Sclavonia; and is met with 

 in Germany, France, Switzerland, Sardinia, and Italy. In Asia 

 it is common in Tartary, and in the region between the Black 

 Sea and the Caspian Sea. 



In this country, in 'Yorkshire to wit,' one was obtained in 

 May, 1844, on Staxton Wold, near Scarborough, as recorded 

 by W. M. E. Milner, Esq., M.P., in the 'Zoologist,' page 

 2023. It was at the time in company with a flock of Dotterels. 

 One in Northumberland, at Bedlington, the beginning of 

 February, 1850. In Devonshire two were seen by the Hon. 

 T. L. Powys, and W. W. Butler, Esq., at the mouth of the 

 Kiver Exe, on the 7th. of September, 1851. In Norfolk a 

 pair were shot on the Breydon-wall, in May, 1827. One was 

 killed near Liverpool, on the 18th. of May, 1804. 



In Zetland one was shot in Uist, by Mr. M. Bullock, August 

 16th., 1815. 



Sandy places, near water, are its natural haunt, and low 

 meadows, where doubtless its insect food abounds. 



They migrate in spring and autumn, moving in large bodies 

 of several companies, and when resting by the way here and 

 there, on a note of alarm from one of the body they all take 

 wing, and after circling about once or twice, go on their way. 

 They are sometimes seen on the sea-shore, when awaiting the 



