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Genus LXXII. PRATINCOLE. 



N" i. Auftrian Pr. 



. Var. A. Collared Pr. 

 Var. B. Maldivian Pr. 

 Var. C. Coromandel Pr. 



Var. D. Madras Pr. 

 N° 2. Senegal Pr. 

 3. Spotted Pr. 



ILL lhort, ftrong, ftrait, hooked at the end : gape wide. 

 Noftrils, near the bafe, linear, oblique. 

 Toes long, flender, connected by a membrane at the bafe. 

 Tail forked ; confiding of twelve feathers. 



AUSTRIAN PR. 



Description. 

 Ft. LXXXV. 



Hirundo Pratincola, Lin. Syft. 1. p. 345. 12. — Kram. El. p. 38 1, pi. at 



the end. 

 LaPerdrix de Mer, Brif. Orn. v. p. 141. 1. pi. 12. fig. 1. — Buf. Oif. vii. 



p. 544.— PL Enl. 882. 

 Hirundo marina Aldrov. Rati Syn. p. 72. 

 Sea Swallow of Aldrovandus, Will. Orn. p. 214. 



. Lev. Muf. 



C IZE of a Blackbird: length nine inches and a quarter. Bill 

 ten lines and a half long, curved at the end ; the bafe of it 

 red, the reft black : the upper parts of the bird are of a greyifh 

 brown : chin and throat white, furrounded with a black line, 

 which begins at the hinder angle of the eye, and bounds the 

 whole of the white parts all round : the under parts are rufous 

 grey, growing paler towards the vent : the upper tail coverts are 

 alfo of this laft colour : the quills and tail are dufky ; the laft 

 much forked in fhape, and tipped with grey on the inner web ; 

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