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CHAEADRIADJE. 
Hal). Derby, N. W. Australia, Gulf of Carpentaria, Richmond 
and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, 
Victoria and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 
Sub-Family GLARE O LI NJE. 
Genus GLA.KEOLA, Bvisson. 
GLAREOLA GRALLARIA, Temminck. 
Australian Pratincole. 
Gould, Handlk. Bds. Ansi., Vol. ii., sp. 515, p. 243. 
“ The home of the Australian Pratincole is the interior of New 
South Wales, and the northern portion of the province of South 
Australia, it is also found occasionally during the wet seasons in 
the neighbourhood of Cape York and Port Darwin. In New 
South Wales I have received specimens from the Lachlan and 
Darling Rivers, and Mr. James Ramsay has noticed it at Tyndarie, 
in the Bourke district. Mr. E, G. Vickery has kindly permitted 
me to describe an egg from his collection, taken near Wilcannia 
on the Darling River, in September 1880. He informs me that 
the parent bird was seen to fly from the eggs, and before they 
were taken to return again and sit on the nest. The eggs were 
three in number, the ground colour is of a creamy-white, dull 
light stone-brown or light buff, well covered with irregularly 
shaped blotches, dots, and spots and freckles of dull umber and 
sienna-brown with a few dots and dashes almost black, and 
obsolete spots here and there of slaty-grey ; length 1 -3 inch by 1 
inch, in shape they are slightly oval, slightly swollen at the thicker 
end and not pointed. An egg of this species in the collection of 
Mr. K. II. Bennett measures 1-24 x 0-95 inch; none differ 
materially from Mr. Vickery’s specimens. Mr. Bennett informs 
me that they select a bare spot on the ground where the earth or 
sand assimilates to the colour and markings of the eggs. They 
breed during October.” (Ramsay ,P.L,S.,N.S. H”, V ol.vii.,p. 410.) 
