362 PRATINCOLE. 



Pratincole; but Mr. Bullock mentions, that one was shot in the 

 year 1805, about three miles from Liverpool, and that both cater- 

 pillars and beetles were found in the stomach.* Mr. Bullock met 

 with it again in the Island of Unst, about three miles from the 

 extremity of North Britain, f in September. 



A. — Glareola torquata, Ltd. Orn. ii. 753. Id. 8vo. ii. 249. Gm. Lin. i. 696. Klein, 



101. G. 

 La Perdrix de Mer a Collier, Buf. vii. 546. 



Le Chorlito a demi-colliers blanc et noiratre, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 405 ? 

 Das Sandhuhn mit dem Halsbande, Bechst. Deuts. iii. 233. 

 Collared Pratincole, Gen. Syn. v. 223. Var. A. 



This is less than the former. Bill dusky ; plumage above grey 

 brown ; on each side of the head a white spot near the eye ; forehead 

 black ; throat, and neck before white, surrounded with a brown line 

 like a collar; breast and beneath whitish ; quills dusky; tail like 

 the back ; legs blackish. 



Inhabits Germany, near streams, and makes the nest on the sandy 

 shores : said to lay as far as seven eggs ; and is a noisy, restless bird. 



This Variety, or a bird very nearly similar, is said, by Azara, 

 to be in Paraguay : length eight inches and a quarter, breadth 

 fourteen. Bill green, with a dusky point: it differs in having a 

 whitish streak on the head, which is, at the top, almost black ; sides 

 brown, neck the same; above the eye, behind it, another white 

 streak, ending at the hindhead; and near the nostrils another; at 

 the beginning of the wing a dusky black half collar; some of the 

 scapulars are white, the others black ; but the general colour of the 

 plumage as in the above. 



* Lin. Trans, ix. p. 19S. Now in the collection of Lord Stanley. f Lin. Trans.xi. 177. 



