GLAEEOLA. 



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The genus Glareola may be diagnosed as Charadriidse resembling Cursorius in having 

 no nasal groove, but differing from it in having a more or less forked tail and a hind toe. 



Synonymy of the Genus Glareola. 



Type. 



Glareola, Brisson, Orn. v. p. 141 (1760) G. pratincola. 



Trachelia, Scopoli, Ann. I. Hist. A^at. p. 110 (1769) G. pratincola. 



Pratiucola, Degland, Orn. Eur. ii. p. 107 (1843) G. pratincola. 



Dromochelidon, Landbeck, Jahresh. Ver. vat. Nat. Wiirttemb. 1846, p. 212 . . G. pratincola. 



Stiltia, Bonaparte, Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 419 (1856) G. grallaria. 



Galachrysia, Bonaparte, Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 419 (1856) G. lactea. 



When Linneus wrote the tenth edition of his 'Systema Naturae' in 1758, he does 

 not appear to have been acquainted vrith the Pratincole ; and w^hen he wrote his twelfth 

 edition, eight years afterwards, he probably only knew it from Brisson's plate (which 

 certainly does look very much like a Swallow), otherwise he would scarcely have committed 

 the blunder of placing it in the genus Hirundo ! 



The Common Pratincole {Glareola pratincola) being the Glareola glareola of Brisson, 

 is therefore the type of the genus. 



Determina- 

 tion of the 



type. 



Large species. 



G. PRATINCOLA . 

 G. MELANOPTERA 



G. OCULARIS 



G. ORIENTALIS 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 



(during the breeding-season) . 



Pal^arctic Region. 



. . South-west. 



. . South Central. 



Small species. 



Ethiopian Eegion. 



Liberia and Niger. 



Gold Coast, Niger, and Loango. 



Loango, Gaboon, and Nubia. 



Lake Albert Nyanza. 



Madagascar. 



G. MEQAPODA. 

 G. CINEREA. 

 G. NUCHALIS. 

 G. EMINI. 



Oriental Region. 



Throughout, and north to Dauria. 

 India, Burma, and Cetjlon. 



G. LACTEA. 



G. GRALLARIA 



Australian Region, 

 East Australia. 



