HIRUNDO pratincola; 



AUSTRIAN PRATINCOLE, 



GENERIC Character, 



Bill fliort, ftraight, hooked at the end, gape \vide» 

 Noftrils placed near the bafe, linear oblique. 

 Toes longj flenderj connefted by a membrane at the 



bafe. 



Tail forked, confifting of twelve feathers/' Lath, Syn^ 



HiRUNDo Pratincola. X/«. *Sj^y?. i. 345, 12, 

 Glareola austriaca. Jnd» Orn, 2, p. 753. a. 

 Austrian Pratincole, Lath, Syn, FoL 5. 222. 

 iak 85. 



Thi S rare vifitor is in length ten inches and a half ; in 

 breadth twenty-one and a half ; and weighs near three ounces. 

 Bill curved ; irides light red 5 tail much forked , legs bare 

 above the knees 5, toes long. 



T6e Pratincole may be confidered as one of the moft rare 

 birds that occafionally refort to thi^ cpuntry 5 the fpecimen 

 from lyhich our figure was taken, was fhot near Ormlkirk, 

 in Lancaftire, in O£lobcr 1809 ; and we have received ac- 

 counts of three others that have been Ihot at various times 

 and places 5 one in September 1811, near Truro, in Corn- 

 wall j 



