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GLAEEOLA. 



Geographi- 

 cal distribu- 

 tion. 



Orisin. 



of these three characters is diagnostic, but the long legs will probably be found to be the 

 safest guide to determine the young in first plumage. 



It breeds in the eastern half of Australia, and is probably only a winter visitor to the 

 islands of the Malay Archipelago, where it has occurred in Java, Borneo, New Gumea, 

 Celebes, and many of the smaller islands. 



The Long-legged Pratincole is probably the result of an emigration from the Bm-ma 

 peninsula, which occurred about the same time and from the same cause as that which is 

 supposed to have proceeded from the adjoining peninsula, and resulted in the differentia- 

 tion of the Madagascar species. 



GLAREOLA LACTEA. 



LITTLE INDIAN PBATINCOLE. 

 Diagnosis. Glareola axillaribus nigvis : secundariis pro majore parte albis. 



Variations, No local races of this species are known. 



Synonym)-. Glareola lactea, Temminck, Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 503 (1820). 



Glareola nipalensis, -v 



Glareola cinerascens, \-Hodgson, Gray's Zool. Miscell. p. 86 (1844). 

 Glareola gangetica, ) 

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



