STONE-CURLEW—COLLARED PRATINCOLE. 283 
of November, 1843, says that R. Loe has seen it much 
later in the year. 
More also considers it as a winter visitor to the Island. 
One was shot at Freshwater, he says, in the winter of 
1854, and another at Bembridge, in the late autumn of 
1857. 
Hadfield's notes in the " Zoologist " agree generally 
with this testimony. He records one procured near 
Ventnor, in November, 1884,^ and two received by Smith, 
of Newport,^ dated respectively April 28th and November 
7th, 1887. 
Dr. Cowper also^ calls it a rare winter visitor, and 
remarks that it may occasionally be seen high in the air, 
passing overland, by those who are accustomed to its flight. 
Hawker only slew five in his fifty years, but one of 
them had a history. He mentions in his " Diary," on 
July 7th, 181 3, "one stone-curlew, which I killed (on my 
return from waiting for the deer) late at night, by calling 
it close to me with imitating its whistle." 
Family — GlareolidcB, 
Genus — Glareola. 
212. Glareola pratincola. Collared Pratincole. 
A very rare accidental visitor from Southern Europe. 
The specimen in the Hart collection was killed by 
Lieutenant Henn at Barton, in the Parish of Milton, near 
Christchurch, in 1857. 
'"Zoologist." March, 1885. 
= '-'Zoologist." January, 1889 
3 " Hants Court Guide." 
