BIRDS OF EUROPE, 



NOT OBSERVED IN THE BRITISH ISLES. 



ORDER XL— ALECTORIDES. 

 Family GLAREOLIDJE. (Bonaparte.) 

 Genus Glareola. 



Generic Characters. — Beak short, convex, compressed towards 

 the point; the upper mandible curved the distal half of its 

 length, without being notched. Nostrils basal, lateral, and 

 obliquely pierced. Legs bare for a short space above the 

 knee; tarsi long and rather slender; three toes in front and 

 one behind, the middle one being united to the exterior by a 

 short membrane: the interior toe free, the posterior toe articu- 

 lated upon the tarsus. Wings very long, the first primary 

 much longer than the others. 



PALLAS'S PEATINCOLE. 





Glareola pallasii. 



Glareola 



pallasn, 



BsucH. ScHLEGEL; Revuo, 1844, 



" 



pratincola, 



Pallas; Zoog. 1811, pi. 2. 





melanoptera, 



NoHDMANN; Bulletin de Mosc. 

 1842, pi. 2, p. 314. 



" 



vordmanii, 



Fischer. 



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