Order, GRALLATORES. 



{Wading Birds.) 



THE COLLARED PRATINCOLE. 



Glareola pratincola, Linn, (sp.) 

 Hirundo „ ,, 



Has been once obtained in Ireland ; 



A specimen having been shot at Castlefreke, the seat of Lord 

 Carbery, in the county of Cork, (by the Rev. Joseph Stopford,) in 

 the month of October, a few years previous to 1843, in which 

 latter year the circumstance was first announced.* Unfortu- 

 nately it was not preserved. 



Eive instances of the occurrence of this bird in England, and 

 one instance of its being met with in Scotland — in the Isle of 

 Unst — are on record. It appeared singly, except on one occa- 

 sion, when two were seen together. t 



The pratincole is little known in Europe, excepting in the 

 warmer and more southern portions of that continent. It is 

 resident in Northern Africa, and throughout a great part of Cen- 

 tral Asia. 



* Dr. J. R. Harvey in Fauna of Cork, p. 11. 

 f Yarrell, Brit. Birds, vol. ii, p. 441, 2nd. edit. 



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