Order, GRALLATORES. 
{Wading Birds.) 
THE COLLARED PRATINCOLE. 
Glareola pratincola, Linn, (sp.) 
Himndo „ ,, 
Has been once obtained in Ireland ; 
A SPECIMEN having been shot at Castlefreke, the seat of Lord 
Carbery, in the county of Cork, (by the Rev. Joseph Stopford,) in 
the month of October, a few years previous to 1843, in which 
latter year the circumstance was first announced.* Unfortu- 
nately it was not preserved. 
Eive instances of the occurrence of this bird in England, and 
one instance of its being met with in Scotland — in the Isle of 
Unst — are on record. It appeared singly, except on one occa- 
sion, when two were seen together.! 
The pratincole is little known in Europe, excepting in the 
warmer and more southern portions of that continent. It is 
resident in Northern Africa, and throughout a great part of Cen- 
tral Asia. 
* Dr. J. R. Harvey in Fauna of Cork, p. 11. 
t Yarrell, Brit. Birds, vol. ii, p. 441, 2nd. edit. 
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