208 GLAEEOLID^. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — An Occasional Visitor. 

 It has been recorded about twenty-four times from Great 

 Britain, chieily from the eastern and southern counties o£ 

 England, from Yorkshire southwards to Kent and thence to 

 Cornwall. On the west it has been observed in Breconshire, 

 Lancashire, and Cumberland. In Scotland it has occurred 

 in Fife, Unst, Shetland Islands, and the Flannan Isles, 

 Outer Hebrides. It is said to have been obtained in Ireland 

 once, in co. Cork. 



Gtmeral Distribution. — The Collared Pratincole inhabits 

 southern Europe and the countries bordering the Medi- 

 terranean eastwards to the Black and Caspian seas, Turkestan, 

 and India. It is migratory in the northern parts of its range, 

 and winters in Africa. It is occasionally found as far north 

 as Belgium, Holland, Germany, and Poland. In eastern 

 Siberia, China, India, and the Malay Peninsula and Islands 

 it is represented by G. orientalis, which winters in Australia. 



Glareola nordmanni. Black-winged 

 Pratincole. 



Glareola nordmanni Fischer, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. 

 Moscow, XV. 1842, p. 314 : S. Russia. 



Glareola melanoptera Nordmann ; Sharpe, Gat. Sirds B. M. 

 xxiv. 1896, p. 57 ; N. F. Ticehurst, Bull. B. 0. 0. xiii. 1903, 

 p. 78. 



Nordmanni, after Dr. A. von Nordmann, a, Russian naturalist, who first 

 discOTered it. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Bare Visitor. It 

 has occurred four times — Romney Marsh, Kent, May and 

 June 1903 ; Rye, Sussex, June 1903 ; Northallerton, York- 

 shire, Aug. 1909. 



General Distribution. — The Black-winged Pratincole in- 

 habits southern Russia west to the Dobruja and even Hungarj' 

 and east to western Siberia and Turkestan. It winters in 

 tropical and southern Africa. 



