334 GLAEEOLID^ GLABEOLA 



650, 855 (1884) ; Seehohm, Ibis, 1887, p. 342 ; id. Geogr. Distr. 

 Charadr. p. 261 (1888) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. 57 (1896) ; 

 Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 195 (1896) ; Woodward Bros., Natal B. p. 181 

 (1899) ; Beichenow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 145 (1900) ; Whitehead, Ibis, 1903, 

 p. 236 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 12 [Deelfontein] . 



Glareola nordmanni, Fischer, Bull. Sac. Imp. Nat. Moscou ii, p. 314 

 (1842) ; Gumey, Ibis, 1864, p. 354 [Natal] ; Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 

 291 (1867) ; Gumey, Ibis, 1868, p. 254, pi. viii ; Layard, Ibis, 1869, 

 p. 75 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 263, 1877, p. 347, 1884, p. 232 ; Buckley, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 388 ; Oakley, Trans. 8. A. Phil. Sac. ii, p. 49 (1881) ; - 

 Holub S,- Pelz. Orn. Siid-Afr. p. 241 (1882) ; Bryden, Nat. and Sport, 

 p. 104 (1897). 



" Klein Springhaan Vogel " of Dutch, " Little Locust Bird," of the 

 English (a name applied also to the Wattled Starling, Dilophus 

 carunculatus). " Uwhamba" of the Zulus (Woodward). 



Fig. 107. — Head of Qlareola melanoptera. >. \l. 



Description. Adult. — Very similar to G. pratincola, but at once 

 distinguished by the colour of the axillaries and under wing-coverts, 

 which are black and not chestnut. 



Iris dark brown ; bill black, the base and edges of the mandible 

 red ; feet dusky. 



Length 10'75 ; wing 7'5 ; tail, outer feather 4-35, middle feather 

 2-5 ; culmen 0'53 ; tarsus 1-45. 



A young bird has pale edgings to most of the feathers ; the throat 

 is whitish with dark shaft lines and is not circumscribed by the 

 dark line present in the adult ; the tail is not so forked, the differ- 

 ence in length between the inner and outer feathers being about an 

 inch only ; axillaries black margined with chestnut. 



Distribution. — Nordmann's Pratincole breeds in South-west 



