15G 
CIlAUADKIllLE. 
GRALLATORES. 
I. CHAUABEIIBJE. 
THE COLLARED PRATINCOLE. 
Glareola torqimta. 
The only specimen which has hitherto been observed north 
of the Tweed was shot at Baltasound on the 16th of August 
1812, by Mr Bullock, who gives the following account of the 
event in the Linna3an Transactions : — 
“ When I first observed it, it rose within a few feet, and flew 
round me in the manner of a swallow, and then alighted close 
to the head of a cow that was tethered within ten yards’ 
distance. After examining it a few minutes, I returned to the 
house of T. Edmondston, Esq., for my gun, and, accompanied 
hj that gentleman’s brother, went in search of it. After a 
short time, it came out of some growing corn, and was catching 
insects at the time I fired, and being wounded only in the 
wing, we had an opportunity of examining it alive. In the 
form of its bill, wings, and tail, as well as in its mode of flight, 
it greatly resembled the genus Hirundo ; but, contrary to the 
whole of this family, the legs were long, and bare above the 
knee, agreeing with tringa ; and, like the Sandpipers, it ran 
with the greatest rapidity when on the ground, or in shallow 
water, in pursuit of its food, which was wholly of flies, and of 
which its stomach was full.” 
This specimen is now in the British Museum. 
