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GLAEEOLA PEATINCOLA. 



(COMMON PRATINCOLE.) 



Glareola torquata, Brisson, Om. v. p. 145 (1760). 

 Eirundo pratincola, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 345 (1766). 



Trachelia pratincola (Linn.), Scopoli, Ann. i. Hist. Nat. p. 110. no. 161 (1769). 

 La Perdrix de Mer, Buff Ois. viii. p. 347 (1783). 

 Austrian Pratincole, Lath. Gen. Synop. v. p. 222, pi. lxxxv. (1785). 

 Glareola austriaca, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 695. no. 1 (1788, ex Lath.). 

 XGlareola nmvia, Gm. torn. cit. p. 696. no. 3 (1788). 

 Glareola torquata, Meyer, Taschenb. Deutsch. Vogelk. ii. p. 404 (1816). 

 Glareola pratincola (L.), Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 131 (1822). 

 Pratincola glareola, Degl. Orn. Europ. ii. p. 107 (1843). 

 . Glareola limbata, Kiipp. Syst. Uebers. p, 113. pi. 12 (1845). 



Perdrix de Mer, Glareole a, collier, French ; Perdiz do Mar, Portuguese ; Canastera, Cagazo, 

 Spanish ; Pernice di mare, Perdrixi de mari, Perdriglie marina, Italian ; Giarol, Halsband- 

 Giarol, German ; TircusKka lugovaya, Russian. 



Figures notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 822 ; Werner, Atlas, Alectorides, pi. 1 ; Rjaerb. Om. Dan. taf. 37; 

 Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. xxxiii. figs. 6, 7; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 234; Gould, B. 

 of Eur. pi. 265 ; id. B. of G. B. iv. pi. 46 ; Roux, Orn. Prov. pi. 327. 



Ad. corpore supra grisescenti-fusco, pileo saturatiore, nucha, capite laterali et regione parotica rufescente 

 ochraceo lavatis : remigibus nigricantibus versus apicem grisescenti-brunneis, primariis intimis in 

 pogonio interno versus apicem vix albido marginatis, secundariis albo apicatis : cauda furcata, rectri- 

 cibus ad basin nigricantibus, ad apicem albis, extimis apicaliter nigridis, in pogonio interno dimidio 

 basali et in pogonio externo paene usque apicem albis : supracaudalibus albis : gutture ochrascenti- 

 fulvido, stricte nigro circumdato : peetore et hypochondriis grisescenti-fulvidis : abdomine et sub- 

 caudalibus albis : subalaribus et axillaribus castaneis : rostro nigro, ad basin rubro : iride fusca : 

 pedibus nigricantibus. 



$ baud a mare distinguenda. 



Juv. corpore supra plumis fulvido et nigro marginatis et albido apicatis, gula, et gutture sordide ochraceis, 

 peetore nigricante striato et maculate 



Adult Male (Barcelona, 4th May) . Upper parts dull earth-brown, darker on the crown ; nape, sides of 

 head, and auriculars washed with rusty yellowish ; wing-coverts with a faint greenish gloss, only 

 perceptible in certain lights ; primaries black, with a faint greenish gloss, fading into greyish brown 

 towards the tips, the inner ones with a slight whitish edge towards the tip of the inner web ; secon- 



