266 GLAEEOLA. 



Variations. No local races of this species are known. 



S3'nonymy. 



Literature. 



Specific 

 characters. 



Geographi- 

 cal distribu- 

 tion. 



Glareola cinerea, Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843^ p. 26. 

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



Plates. — GraVj Genera of Birds, iii. pi. cxliv. 

 Habits.— Forbes, Ibis, 18S3, pp. 129, 514. 

 Eggs. — Hartert, Journ. Orn. 1886, p. 610. 



The White-winged Pratincole is the only species of the genus which has ic/iiie 

 axillaries, a character common to old and young. 



It is only known from West Africa, where it is a resident in the Fantee Country 

 (Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 487), the valley of the Niger (Forbes, Ibis, 1883, p. 129), the 

 valley of the Ogowai (Bocage, Orn. d' Angola, p. 422), and the Loango coast (Falkenstein, 

 Journ. Orn. 1877, p. 11). 



GLAREOLA NUCHALIS. 



WHITH-NAPED PRATINCOLE. 



Diagnosis. Glareola axillanbus griseis : secundariarum pogouiis externis pro parte basaU albis. 



