GLARE0LIDA3. 
185 
Dromochelidon Landbeck. Isis, March 1842, col. 199, Heft 3. Type (by 
monotypy) : Dromochelidon natrophila Landbeck =Hirundo pratincola Linn6. 
Glare ola maldivarum Forster. 
Distr. —India to Australia. 
[Glareola maldivarum maldivarum Forster. 
GJareola ( Pratincola) maldivarum Forster, Faunula Indica, p. 11 
(pref. June 20th), 1795: Open sea near the Maidive Islands. 
Glareola ( Pratincola ) coromanda Forster, ib.: Coromandel. 
Glareola ( Pratincola ) madraspatana Forster, ib.: Madras. 
Distr ,— India and China. Extra-limital.] 
Glareola maldivarum orientalis Leach. (24-58.) 
Glareola orientalis Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. xiii. pt. i. 
p. 132, May 1821: Java (breeding?). (Fig. Gould, vi. pi 23- 
Math. pi. 171.) 
Glareola thermophila vol longijies Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vol. xxiv. p. 59 
(prof. July 10th), 1896: as synonym of orientalis Leach, ex Gray, Zool 
Miscell. p. 86 : after June 29th, 1842, n. n. 
Glareola pratincola parrtji Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. iii. p. 70, July 21st 
1917 : Parry’s Creek, North-West Australia. 
Distr .— Winter visitor to Australia. 
Genus PELTOHYAS Sharpe. 
Peltohyas Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vol. xxiv. p. 307 (pref. 
July 10th), 1890. Type (by monotypy): JEudromius australis 
Gould. 
Pelt ohyas australis (Gould). 
Distr .—New South Wales, Victoria, South and South-West 
Australia. 
Peltohyas australis australis (Gould). (24-307.) 
JEudromius australis Gould, Proo. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1840, p. 174, 
July 1841: Interior Australia (South Australia). (Fig. Gould 
vi. pi. 15.) 
Distr .—New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. 
Peltohyas australis whitlocki (Mathews). 
Gharadrius australis whitlocki Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii.p. 218, 
^lV^) 1, : Mid-West Australia. (Fig. Math! 
Distr .—Mid and South-West Australia. 
