328 ALECTORIDES. GLAREOLA. Cottarep 
to the knee. ‘Toes three before, and one behind; the outer 
united to the middle one by a short membrane. _ Claws long, 
and drawn to a fine point. Wings very long; the first quill 
feather the longest in each wing. Tail more or less forked. 
The members of this genus are inhabitants of the tempe- 
‘rate and warmer climates. They frequent the margins of 
lakes and rivers, feeding chiefly upon the insects offered 
abundantly by such situations, and which they capture both 
on wing and on the ground, where these birds run with much 
swiftness. ‘Their flight also, from the great length of their 
wings, is remarkably rapid. ‘The moult with them appears 
to be double ; but the change of colour from the winter to 
the spring plumage is not abrupt, nor strong : being princi- 
pally confined to an additional brilliancy and depth in its 
tints, 
Collared Pratincole-—-Glareola torquata, Meyer. 
PLATE 68. 
( Glareola torquata, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 2. p. 404. 
Glaréole a Collier, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 2. p. 500. 
Hirundo Pratincola, Linn. Syst. p. 345. sp. 12.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 695.— 
Old birds | _ 2/ock in Trans. of Linn. Soe. v. 11. p. 177. 
of both Glareola, Briss. 5. p. 141. t. 12. f. 1. 
Hirundo marina, Raii, Syn. p. 72.—Will. p. 156. 
Rear La Perdrix de Mer, Briss. Orn. v. 5. p. 141. f. 1.—Buff: Ois. v. 7. p. 544, 
—Id. Pl. Enl. 882. 
Das Rothfussige Sandhuhn, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 4. p. 457. t. 13. 
reese Pratincole, Lath. Syn. v. p. 222. t. 85. 
f Glareola Austriaca, Senegalensis, et Nzevia, Gmel. Syst. 1. Bs 695. sp. I, 
2, and 3.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. p. 753. and 754. sp. 1, 2, and 3, and 
the varieties. —Briss. v. 3. p. 147. and 148. 
Young Glareola torquata, Briss. v. 5. p. 145. 
and other | La Perdrix de Mer, La Grise, La Brune, et La Giarole, Buff: Ois. v. 7. 
varieties. p- 544. et 545. 
Das Braunringige Sandhuhn, und Gefleckte Sandhuhn, Bechst. Naturg. 
Deut. v. 4. p. 461. var. A. and B 
Collared, Coromandel, Senegal, Spotted, and other varieties, Lath. Syn. 
Lv. 5. p. 224. and 225. 
eecasions The Collared Praticole was first added to the British Fau- 
visitant. j . 
na by Mr Buxtock, proprietor of the late London Museum, 
