PRATINCOLE. 365 



Inhabits Germany. — We are unwilling to pass over the opinions 

 of former authors on this subject, and have referred to them accord- 

 ingly, not without great suspicion that the whole of the above form 

 but one species, differing only in sex, or variation of feathers during 

 the progress towards maturity. M. Temminck supposes this last to 

 be a young bird, in incomplete feather. ' 



4.— CINEREOUS PRATINCOLE. 



LENGTH six inches and a half. Bill more than half an inch 

 long, curved, and black ; between the bill and eye a narrow line of 

 black ; irides brown ; eye surrounded with white ; plumage above 

 very pale ash-colour, extending over the breast; chin and throat 

 whitish, with a few dusky streaks; belly, thighs, and vent, white; 

 rump and upper tail coverts the same ; tail one inch and a half or 

 more long, and nearly even at the end ; most of the middle feathers 

 black, with the ends white ; two or three of the outer ones white for 

 the greater part from the base, deepest on the outer ones ; and the 

 exterior white on the outer web for the whole length ; legs purplish 

 red, bare a quarter of an inch above the knee, the joint of which is 

 black, and the toes darker than the rest of the leg ; claws long, 

 hooked, and slender ; quills dusky black, and exceed the end of the 

 tail by three quarters of an inch. 



Inhabits India, called there Kay-chul ; seen at Cawnpore in 

 October. 



5— ORIENTAL PRATINCOLE. 



Glareola Orientalis, Lin. Trans, xiii. 132. pi. 13.— male & female. — Leach. Id. p, 

 187.— Horsfield. 



IN this the bill is black ; gape yellow ; plumage above brownish 

 ash-colour, beneath white ; throat surrounded with a broken ring of 



