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AUSTRIAN. 
Descrir- 
TION. 
AUSTRIAN PRATINCOLE. Cuzass U. 
GENUS IX. PRATINCOLE. 
Bit short, strong, strait, hooked at the end. 
Nosrrits near the base, linear, oblique. 
Tozs long, slender, connected by a membrane 
at the base. 
Tait forked, consisting of twelve feathers. 
Glareola Austriaca. G]. griseo Glareola. Brisson av. v. 141. 
fusca subtus rufo-alba, linea Gab IQ fie 
gulari incurvata nigra, rec- Le perdrix demer. Hist. dois. 
tricibus quatuor exterioribus vii. 544. Pl. Enl. 882. 
basi albis. Lath. Ind. orn. Austrian Pratincole. Monta- 
753. id. Syn. v. 222. tab. 85. gu in Lin. Tr. ix. 199. , 
Hirundo Pratincola. Gm. Lin. re 
695. 
[A SOLITARY instance occurs of this cu- 
rious bird, which seems to unite the Swallow 
and Teru tribe, having visited England, It 
was shot in Lancashire. 
Its size that of a Blackbird. The base of 
the bill is black, the rest red; the upper parts 
of the body are of a, greyish brown; the chin 
and throat white, surrounded with a black line, 
which begins at the hinder angle of the eye, and 
bounds the whole of the white ; the under parts — 
