360 PRATINCOLE. 



GENUS LXXX— PRATINCOLE. 



1 Austrian Pratincole 



D Var. 



A Var. 



2 Senegal 



B Var. 



3 Spotted 



C Var. 



4 Cinereous 



5 Oriental 



6 Australasian 



7 Cream-coloured 



-DILL short, strong, straight, a little compressed on the sides, the 

 upper mandible hooked at the end, gape wide. 



Nostrils near the base, linear, oblique. 



Thighs naked for half the length. 



Wings long. 



Tail, consisting of twelve feathers, forked for the most part. 



Toes long, slender, four in number, three before and one behind; 

 those placed forwards connected by , a membrane at the base ; the 

 back toe half the length of the fore one. 



1.— AUSTRIAN PRATINCOLE— Pl. clvii. 



Glareola Austriaea, Ind. Orn. ii. 753. Bris.v. 141. t. 12. f. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 248. Fn. 



Helv. Gerin. v. t. 547. Gm. reise, i. 77. pl. 16. 

 Glareola Pratincola, Lin. Trans, xz'ii. 131. t. 12. — male & female. 

 Glareola torquata, Tern. Man. Ed. 2d. p. 500. 

 Pratincola, Kram. 381. pl. in p. 400. Borowsk. iii. 158. 

 Hirundo Pratincola, Lin. i. 345. Gm. Lin. i. 695. Gm. reise, iv. 149. 

 Hirundo marina Aldrovandi, Will. 156. § V. 

 Hirundo riparia, Mars. Dan. v. 96. t. 46. 

 Das Oesterreichische Sandhuhn, Bechst. Deutsch. iii. 231. t. 13. Id. Ed. 2d. iv. 461. 



A. B. Schmid, 130. t. 114. 

 La Perdrix de Mer, Buf. vii. 544. PI. enl. 882. 

 Die Schneppe, Gmel. reise, i. 77. t. 16. 

 Sea-Swallow of Aldrovaudus, Will. Engl. 214. § V. 

 Austrian Pratincole, Gen. Syn. v. 222. pl. 85. Lin. Trans, ix. p. 128. Id. xi. p. 177. 



Orn. Diet. pl. in Sup. Shaw's Zool. x. 136. pl. 16. 



SIZE of a Blackbird ; length nine inches. Bill ten lines and 

 a half long, base red, the rest black ; plumage on the upper parts 



