GLAEEOLA. 



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No local races of this species are known. 



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



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



Variations. 



Synonymy. 



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 



ens meters. 



G. megapoda and G. ernini, by its grey axillaries, and from those species by having a white 

 patch on the outer webs, as well as on the inner webs, 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 Geocraphi- 

 British Museum, and was obtained by Galton in Nubia. In the Paris Museum are tion. ' ' 

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

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

 Journ. Orn. 1877, p. 9). 



It is nearest related to G. megapoda. Nearest 



GLAREOLA MEGAPODA. 



B VTTIKOFEE 'S PRATI1S COLE. 

 Glareola axillarihus griseis : nucha collari rufo ornata. 



Di as n os is. 



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