GLAEEOLA. 

 No local races of this species are known. 



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Glareola nuchalis, Gray, Proc. Zool. Sue. 1849, p. 63, 



Glareola marchei, Oustalet, Bull. Soc. Philom. ser. 7, i. p. 104 (1877). 



Variations. 



Sj'nonymy. 



Plates. — Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, pi. ix. (The wing-coverts are erroneously figured with Literature. 



white tips.) 

 Habits. — Undescribed. 

 Eggs. — Unknown. 



The White-naped Pratincole may be distinguished from all its allies, except from Specific 

 G. megapoda and G. emini, by its c/rei/ axillaries, and from those species by having a loliite 

 patch on the outer webs, as well as on the inner v?ebs, of the secondaries at the base. 

 When adult it may be recognized by its white nuchal collar ; but as its ally G. megapoda 

 has no collar in young in first plumage, it is probable that the young in first plumage of 

 G. nuchalis are also without any collar. 



The White-naped Pratincole is a very rare bird in collections The type is in the Geographi- 

 British Museum, and was obtained by Galton in Nubia. In the Paris Museum are ^joj, 

 examples obtained by Marche in the Gaboon ; and in the Museums of Berlin and Leyden 

 are others obtained by Palkenstein on the Loango coast " near the mountains " (Reichenow, 

 Journ. Orn. 1877, p. 9). 



It is nearest related to G. megapoda. Nearest 



GLAREOLA MEGAPODA. 



BUTTIKOFUB'S PEATIISCOLK 

 Glareola axillaribus griseis : nucha collari rufo ornata. 



Diagnosis. 



2 M 2 



