2ÔS 
GLAREOLA. 
Synon.: Pratiiicola Kramer. — Trachelia Scop. — Dromochelidon Landb. — Gala- 
ehrysia , Stiltia Bonap. 
Bill short, broad at the base, much compressed to the tip, with the culmen 
depressed at the base, elevated and arched to the tip, the lateral margins curved; 
the nostrils basal, lateral and oblique. Wings lengthened, pointed, extending 
beyond the end of the tail, with the first quill longest. Tail moderate and more 
or Jess forked. Legs moderate and slender ivith the tarsi scutellated and the middle 
toe and claw lengthened; the outer toe longer than the inner and united at the base 
to the middle one; the hind toe very short, elevated, but touching the ground; and 
the claws rather long, nearly straight, that of the middle toe slightly pectinated 
on one side. — 8 Specc. 
australis Leach, Transact. Linn. Soc. 1821. XIII. 132. = Glareola grallaria Tem. 
austriaca Latham, Ind. Ornith. 753. = Glareola pratincola Leach. 
cinerea Fraser, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1843. XI. 26. — Gray, Genera Birds III. 
Tb. 144. [Africa occid. 
Galachrysia cinerea Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLIII. 419. 
cinerascens Hodgson, Zool. Miscell. 1844. =; Glareola lactea Tem. 
cuneicauda Peale, Unit. St. Explor. Exped. VIII. 244. 
gangetica Hodgson, Zool. Miscell. — Glareola lactea Tem. 
Geoffroyi Pucheran, Revue Zool. 1845. 51. = Glareola ocularis Verr. 
grallaria Temminck, Man. Ornith. II. 503. — Gould, Birds Australia VI. Tb. 
22. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Cursor. 18. [Australia. Moluccae. Java. 
Glareola isabella Vieillot, Galerie Oiseaux. Tb. 263. 
Glareola australis Leach, Transact. Linn. Soc. 1821. XIII. Tb. 14. 
Stiltia grallaria Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLIII. 419. 
isabella Vieillot , Galerie Oiseaux Tb. 263. = Glareola grallaria Tem. 
lactea Temminck, PI. color. 399. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Cursor 17. 
[India. 
Glareola orientalis Jerdon, Madras Journ. XII. 215. 
Glareola nipalensis, Gl. cinerascens , Gl. gangetica Hodgson, Zool. Miscell. 1844. 
Galachrysia lactea Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLIII. 419. 
Utteran. 
limbata Rüppell, Syst. Uebers. NO. Africa 113.= Glareola pratincola Leach. 
megapodia Gray, List spec, brit, Mus. III. 62. = Glareola nuchalis Gray. 
nielanoptera Nordmann, Bullet. Natur. Moscou 1842. 314. Tb. 2. — Degland, 
Ornith. Eur. II. 112. — Gould, Birds Asia Tb. 15. — v. Heuglin, Ornith. 
NO. Africa II. 982. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Cursor. 15. 
[Russia mer id. Africa orient. 
Glareola pratincola Pallas, Zoogr. ross. as. II. 150. 
Glareola Nordmanni Fischer, Bullet. Natur. Moscou 1842. 314. 
Glareola Pallasi Bruch, Schlegel Revue crit. 1844. 81. 
Pratincola Pallasi Degland, Ornith. Europ. a. II. 110. 
naevia Brisson, Ornith. V. 147. — Glareola pratincola Leach. 
nipalensis Hodgson, Zool. Miscell. — Glareola lactea Tem. 
Nordmanni Fischer, Bullet. Natur. Moscou 1842. 314. = Glareola melanoptera 
-Nordm. 1 
nuchalis Gray, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1849. 63. Tb. 9. — v. Heuglin, Ornith. 
NO. Afr. II. 984. [Africa or. occid. 
Glareola megapodia Gray, List. spec. brit. Mus. 62. juv. — [cf. Gl. pratincola 
Leach.] 
ocularis Verreaux, S. Afr. Journ. 1833. 80. — Schlegel et Pollen, Rech. 
Faune Madagascar 130. Tb. 48. [Madagascar. 
Glareola Geoffroyi Pucheran, Magaz. Zool. 1845. Tb. 57. 
orientalis Leach, Transact. Linn. Soc. 1821. XIII. 132. Tb. 13. — - Gould, 
Birds Australia VI. Tb. 23. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Cursor. 16. 
[India. Java. Australia. 
Glareola torquata Jerdon, Madr. Journ. 
