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AUSTRIAN PRATINCOLE. Class II. 



GENUS IX. PRATINCOLE. 



Bill short, strong, strait, hooked at the end. 

 Nostrils near the base, linear, oblique. 

 Toes long, slender, connected by a membi'ane 



at the base. 

 Tail forked, consisting of twelve feathers. 



Austrian. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



Glareola Austriaca. Gl. griseo 

 fusca subtus rufo-alba, linea 

 gulari incurvata nigra, rec- 

 tricibus quatuor exterioribus 

 basi albis. Lath. Ind. orn. 

 753. id. Syn.v. 222. tah. 85. 



Hlrundo Pratincola. Gm. Lin. 

 695. 



Glareola. Brisson av. v. 141. 



tah. 12. f. 1. 

 Le perdrix de mer. Hist. dois. 



vii. 544. PL Enl. 882. 

 Austrian Pratincole. Monta' 



gu in Lin. Tr. ix. IQQ. 



[A SOLITARY instance occurs of this cu- 

 rious bird, which seems to unite the Swallow 

 and Teru tribe, having visited Englajid, It 

 was shot in Lancashire. 



Its size that of a Blackbird. The base of 

 the bill is black, the rest red ; the upper parts 

 of the body are of a greyish brown ; the chin 

 and throat white, surrounded w ith a black line, 

 which begins at the hinder angle of the eye, and 

 bounds the whole of the white j the under parts 



