BIRDS OF EUROPE, 



NOT OBSERVED IN THE BRITISH ISLES. 



ORDER XL— ALECTORIDES. 

 Family GLAREOLID^. f Bonaparte. J 

 Genus Gl areola. 



Generic Characters. — Beak short, convex, compressed towards 

 the point; the upper mandible curved the distal half of its 

 length, without being notched. Nostrils basal, lateral, and 

 obliquely pierced. Legs bare for a short space above the 

 knee; tarsi long and rather slender; three toes in front and 

 one behind, the middle one being united to the exterior by a 

 short membrane: the interior toe free, the posterior toe articu- 

 lated upon the tarsus. Wings very long, the first primary 

 much longer than the others. 



PALLAS'S PRATINCOLE. 



Glareola pallasii. 



Glareola pallasii, Beuch. Schlegel; Revue, 184i. 



" pratincola, Pallas ; Zoog. 1811, pi. 2. 



" melanoplera, Noedmann; Bulletin de Mosc. 



1842, pi. 2, p. 311. 

 '• vordmanii, Fischek. 



