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QTINfE. GLAREOLA. 
the eye to the occiput; the primaries black. Young with the 
upper parts of a duller tint, with undulated angular trans- 
verse dusky lines. 
Male, 10.., 6f, 1, ly§, y^r? fir* 
Said to inhabit various parts of Africa, and especially 
Abyssinia. Individuals have occurred in Italy, Spain, Swit- 
zerland, and Germany ; but in the latter more northern coun- 
tries it is considered an extremely rare straggler. In England 
not more than four specimens are recorded to have been ob- 
tained : the first in East Kent, in 1785 ; the second in North 
Wales, in 1793; the third in Yorkshire, in 1816 ; the fourth 
in Leicestershire, in 1827. 
Cream-coloured or European Swiftfoot, or Plover. 
Cursorius Europseus. Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 751. — -Curso- 
rius isabellinus, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. ii. 513. — Cursorius 
isabellinus, Cream-coloured Courser, MacGillivray, Brit. 
Birds, iv. 
GENUS LXXXVII. GLAREOLA. PRATINCOLE. 
The birds of this genus, all of small size, and remarkable i 
for their very long and pointed wings, forked tail, and slen- 
der feet, have by some been considered as Swallows, by 
others as belonging to the Gallinaceous family, and by some 
again as allied to the Plovers. I think their true place is 
next to the Cursorii and Pluviales. Their bill is short, i 
moderately stout, somewhat arcuate, wider than high at the 
base, compressed toward the end ; upper mandible with the 
dorsal line straight at first, then arcuato-decurvate, the nasal I 
sinus wide and feathered, the ridge narrow, the edges sharp 
and inflected toward the end, without notch, the tip rather 
acute ; lower mandible with the angle of moderate width, 
the dorsal line slightly decurved, the edges sharp and in- 
flected, the tip acute ; the gape-line arched, and commencing 
beneath the eyes, so that the mouth is wide, and in no re- 
spect resembles that of the Plovers. Nostrils basal, lateral, 
oblong, oblique. Eyes large, lower eyelid bare. Aperture 
of ear rather large. Legs of moderate length, very slender ; 
tibia bare for a short space ; tarsus moderate, slender, reti- 
culated ; hind toe very small, a little elevated, lateral toes 
very short, the outer a little longer, the middle toe much ex- 
