Order CHARADRI I FORMES 
No. 213. 
Family GLAREOLIDM. 
STILTIA ISABELLA. 
AUSTRALIAN PRATINCOLE. 
(Plate 170.) 
Glareola ISABELLA VieiUot, Analyse nouv. Omith., p. 69, 1816 ; Australia. 
Glareola isdbella Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Omith., p. 69, 1816 ; id., Galer. des Ois., Vol. II., 
p. 159, pi. 263, 1825. 
Glareola grallaria Temminck, Manuel d’Om., Vol. II., p. 503, 1820 (South Asia) ; 
Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VE., pi. 22, 1846 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol, II., 
p. 243, 1865 ; Diggles, Handb, Birds Austr., Vol. II., pi. 98, 1877 ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W,, Vol. II., p. 198, 1878 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol, VII., p. 410, 1883 ; Bennett, ib., Vol. X,, p. 168, 1885 ; Seebohm, Geogr. 
Distr. Charadr., p. 263, 1887 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 20, 1888 ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 308, 1889 ; Legge, Proc. Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 
Vol. IV., p. 980, 1892; Campbell, ib., Vol. V., p. 438, 1893; BuUer, Trans. 
New Zeal. Inst. 1898, Vol. XXXI., p. 23, 1899. 
Glareola australis Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XIII., p. 132, 1820 
(Austraha). 
Glareola isabellina Lesson, Compl. Buff., Ois., p. 665, 1838. 
Stiltia grallaria Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. XLIII., p. 419, 1856. 
Stiltia isabella Salvador!, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., Vol. XVIII., p. 322, 1882 ; id., Omith. 
Papua, e Moll., Vol. III., p. 286, 1882 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. XXIV., p. 51, 1896 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 79, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 769, 1901 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. II., p. 64, 1902 ; 
Berney, «6., p. 212, 1903 ; Hall, ib., Vol. III., p. 43, 1903 ; Berney, ib., 
Vol. IV., p. 46, 1904 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol XII., p. 202, 1905 ; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 79, 1906 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 110, 1907 ; Ingram,^ 
Ibis 1907, p. 394 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 29, 1908 ; id., Nov. 
Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 224, 1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 74, 1913. 
RMmphalea isabella Heine, Nomencl. Mus. Hein., p. 338, 1890. 
Distribution. Austraha (and islands to the North-west). 
Adult male. Pale ohve-brown on the head, back, scapulars, and wings : all the feathers 
margined with rufous except on the rump ; hind-neck, fore-neck, and breast 
mfous ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts and quills blackish, the short innermost 
