COLLARED PRATINCOLE. 441 



GRALLA TORES. CHARA DRUDGE. 



THE COLLARED PRATINCOLE. 



Glareola torquata. 



Glareola Austriaca, Austrian Pratincole, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 110. 



MONTAGU, Supp. Ornith. Diet. 



Hirundo Pratincola, BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 309. 



Glareola torquata, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 94. 



Collared SEL BY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 213. 



Pratincola, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 216. 



torquata, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. vii. 



Glareole a collier, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 500. 



GLAREOLA. Generic Characters. Beak short, convex, compressed towards 

 the point, the upper mandible curved throughout the distal half of its length. 

 Nostrils basal, lateral, pierced obliquely. Legs bare for a short space above the 

 tarsal joint ; long and rather slender ; three toes in front, one behind ; the middle 

 toe united by a short membrane to the outer toe ; the inner toe free ; the hind 

 toe articulated upon the tarsus ; claws long and subulate. Wings very long, the 

 first quill-feather considerably the longest. 



A LIVING example of this species was preserved for some 

 months in the aviary at the Gardens of the Zoological 



