Genus — G L A R E O L A . 
Glareola Brisson, Ornitli., Vol. I., p, 48, 1760 ; Vol. V., 
p. 141, 1760 Type G. pratincola. 
Trachelia Scopoli, Annus I., Hist. Nat., p. 110, 1769 . . Type G. pratincola. 
Pratincola Sclirenck, Fauna Boica, Vol. I., p. 209, 1798 Type G. pratincoki. 
Dromochelidon Landbeck, Jahrsbh. ver. Nat. Wurt. 1846, 
p. 228 Type G, pratincoki. 
Glareoline birds with very short bills, long wings, long tail and short legs 
with rather long toes. The bill is very short ; the feathering of the fore-head 
extends on the culmen, so that the depression in which the nostrils lay is 
covered save the portion showing the nostrils ; it is broad at its base and the 
tip decurved : comparatively like a miniature of that of Stiltia with the 
greater portion covered with feathers ; the lower mandible is practically 
without a marked gonys. 
The wings are very long and pointed with the first primary longest, but 
not attenuate and lengthened as in Stiltia. Tail long and very deeply 
forked : the outer-tail feathers measuring almost half the length of the wing. 
The legs are short ; the metatarsus is regularly scutellate in front and 
behind ; the toes are long and the outer one connected with the middle one 
by a web, the inner disconnected ; middle claw extraordinarily long and 
pectinated ; hind toe present. 
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