Order CHARADBIIF0RME8 
No. 214. 
Family GLAREOLIDAB. 
GLAREOLA PRATINCOLA MALDIVARUM. 
ORIENTAL PRATINCOLE. 
(Plate 171.)* 
Glabeola (Pratincola) MALDIVARUM Latham and Davies, Faun. Indica, p. 11, 1796 ; 
Maidive Islands. 
Maldivian Pratincole Latham, Gen. Synops., Vol. III., pt. i., p. 224, 1785. 
Coromandel Pratincole id., ib. 
Madras Pratincole id., ib. 
Olareola {Pratincola) maldivarum Latham and Davies, Faun. Indica, p. 11, 1795. 
Olareola {Pratincola) coromanda id., ib. (Coromandel Coast). 
Olareola {Pratincola) madraspatana id., ib. (Madras). 
Olareola orientalis Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lend.), Vol. XIII., p. 132, 1820 (Java) ; 
Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VI., p. 23, 1848 ; Swinhoe, Ibis 1861, p. 342 ; Gould, 
Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 245, 1865 ; Blyth, Ibis 1867, p. 163 ; Sharpe, 
ib. 1876, p. 51 ; Ramsay, ib. 1877, p. 469 ; Diggles, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., 
pi. xcvin., 1877 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 198, 1878 ; 
Salvador!, Ornith. Papua, e MoU., Vol. III., p. 284, 1882 ; Kelham, Ibis 1882, p. 6 ; 
Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 258, 1887 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, 
p. 20, 1888 ; Styan, Ibis 1891, p. 503 ; La Touche, ib. 1892, p. 495 ; Legge, Proc. 
Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Vol. IV., p. 981, 1892 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. XXIV., p. 58, 1896 ; Heartland, Proc. Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXII., 
p. 160, 1898 ; North, Birds County Cumberl., p. 109, 1898 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 79, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 771, 1901 ; Hall, 
Emu, Vol. II., p. 64, 1902 ; Bemey, ib., p. 213, 1903 ; Carter, ib., Vol. III., p. 176, 
1904 ; Berney, ib., Vol. IV., p. 46, 1904 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 79, 1906 ; 
Bemey, Emu, Vol. VI., p. Ill, 1907; Ingram, Ibis 1907, p. 394; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 29, 1908 ; id.. Emu, Vol. IX., p. 56, 1907 ; id., ib., 
Vol. X., p. 104, 1910. 
Olareola torquata Jerdon, Madras Joum. Litt. Sci., Vol. XII., p. 216, 1840. 
Olareola pratincola (not Lmne) Radde, Reisen Suden von Ost-Sibir., p. 307 (301), 1863. 
Trachelia pratincola maldivarum Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 225, 1912. 
Olareola pratincola maldivarum Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 74, 1913. 
* The Plate is lettered Trachelia maldivarum. 
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