GLAREOLA PRATINCOLA. 
AUSTRIAN PRATINCOLE. 
Generic Character. 
Bill shorty straight, hooked at the end, gape wide. 
Nostrils placed near the base, linear oblique. 
Toes long, slender, connected by a membrane at the 
base. 
Tail forked, consisting of twelve feathers. 
Synonyms. 
Glareola Austriaca. Ind. Or. 2 p. 735. I. 
HiRUNDo Practincola. Lin. Si/st. l.p.SVo. 12. 
Austrian Pratincole.. Lath. Si/n. Vol. 5. p. 222. 
tab. 85. Montague in Lin. Trans. Vol. 
9. p 199. Br, Zool ^vo. ed. Vol 2. 
p. 110. Suppl. Mont. Orn, Diet. 
JL HIS rare visitor is iii length ten inches and a half ; in 
breadth Ivventy-one and a half; and weighs near three 
ounces. Bill curved; irides light red; tail much forked ; 
legs bare above the knees ; toes long. 
The Pratincole may be considered as one of the most rare 
birds that occasionally resort to this country ; the specimen 
from which our figure was taken, was shot near Ormskirk, 
in Lancashire, in October 1809; and we have received ac- 
counts of three others that have been shot at various times 
and 
