PALLAS'S PKATINCOLE. 3 



It runs as fast as a plover, and is equally afraid of 

 man. It flies away when flushed, vittering the cry 

 ' tirek-tirik,' like a Tern. It migrates early to the 

 south. 



It differs so little in plumage from the well-known 

 Pratincole, that I have not thought it necessary to 

 give a figure, and I have stated all the points in 

 which it diverges structurally or ornamentally from that 

 bird. 



It is figured by Pallas, Zoog. pi. 2; and by Nord- 

 mann, in the Bulletin of Moscow, 1842, pi. 2. 



