728 (EDICNEMUSGLAREOLA 



Triel, Dan. ; Tjockfot, Swed. ; Avdotka, Ldshin, Kuss. ; El 

 Karuana, Moor. ; Keruan, Arab. ; Karwanak, Barsiri, Hindu. 



$ ad. (England). Upper parts pale brown streaked with dark brown, 

 the sides of the head paler ; a light streak over the eye and a dark one 

 from the base of the mandible to the ear-coverts ; wings, when extended, 

 with two distinct white bars ; base of tail and middle feathers mottled 

 pale and dark brown, tail then whitish tipped with black ; under parts 

 white, the breast, lower throat, and flanks washed with buff and streaked 

 with blackish brown ; under tail-coverts rufous buff ; bill greenish yellow 

 at base, blackish at point ; legs pale yellow ; iris golden yellow. Culmen 

 T60, wing 9*5, tail 5'0, tarsus 3*0 inch. Sexes alike. The young bird 

 resembles the adult, but the markings are less clearly denned. 



Hob. Temperate and Southern Europe, a migrant in the 

 northern portions of its range, but otherwise chiefly resident ; 

 Great Britain ; rare in Ireland ; accidental in Scandinavia ; 

 North Africa south to Abyssinia ; Asia Minor and Asia east to 

 India, Burma, and Ceylon, north into Central Asia. 



Inhabits open, flat country, chiefly desert sandy places, and 

 not, as a rule, cultivated ground ; it is to some extent cre- 

 puscular, and feeds late into the night. In its general habits 

 it reminds one much of the Bustards. Its cry is a loud and 

 shrill Curlew, chiefly uttered at night. It feeds on worms, 

 insects, larvae, snails, &c. Its nest is hardly a depression on 

 the soil in some dry place, and its eggs, 2 to 3 in number, are 

 usually laid from early in April to the end of June, and are 

 stone buff, sometimes with a greenish tinge, profusely spotted 

 and blotched with blackish brown surface markings, and 

 purplish grey or greyish brown shell blotches, and measure 

 about 2*10 by 1*47. Sometimes two broods are reared in the 

 season. 



GLAREOLA, Briss., 1760. 



1016. PRATINCOLE. 

 GLAREOLA PRATIISTCOLA. 



Glareola pratincola (Lino.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 345 (1766); Gould, B. of 

 Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 46 ; Dresser, vii. p. 411, pi. 513, fig. 1 ; Sharpe, Cat. 

 B. Br. Mus. xxiv. p. 53 ; Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. Birds, iv. p. 216 ; 

 Saunders, p. 531 ; Lilford, v. p. 15, pi. 5 ; Poynting, p. 7, pi. 2 ; 

 G. torquata, Meyer, Taschenb. Deutsch. Vogelk. ii. p. 404 (1816) ; 

 Naum. ix. p. 437, Taf. 234 ; Hewitson, ii. p. 290, pi. Ixxv. ; Gould, 

 B. of E. iv. pi. 265. 



