. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. 266 GLAEEOLA. Variations. No local races of this species are known. S3'nonymy. Literature. Specific characters. Geographi- cal distribu- tion. Glareola cinerea, Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843^ p. 26. Galachrysia cinerea, Bonaparte, Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 419 (1856). Plates.—GraVj Genera of Birds, iii. pi. cxliv. Habits.—Forbes, Ibis, 18S3, pp. 129, 514. Eggs.—Hartert, Journ. Orn. 1886, p. 610. The White-winged Pratincole is the only species of the genus which has ic/i
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. 266 GLAEEOLA. Variations. No local races of this species are known. S3'nonymy. Literature. Specific characters. Geographi- cal distribu- tion. Glareola cinerea, Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843^ p. 26. Galachrysia cinerea, Bonaparte, Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 419 (1856). Plates.—GraVj Genera of Birds, iii. pi. cxliv. Habits.—Forbes, Ibis, 18S3, pp. 129, 514. Eggs.—Hartert, Journ. Orn. 1886, p. 610. The White-winged Pratincole is the only species of the genus which has ic/iiie axillaries, a character common to old and young. It is only known from West Africa, where it is a resident in the Fantee Country (Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 487), the valley of the Niger (Forbes, Ibis, 1883, p. 129), the valley of the Ogowai (Bocage, Orn. d'Angola, p. 422), and the Loango coast (Falkenstein, Journ. Orn. 1877, p. 11).. GLAREOLA NUCHALIS. WHITH-NAPED PRATINCOLE. Diagnosis. Glareola axillanbus griseis : secundariarum pogouiis externis pro parte basaU Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seebohm, Henry, 1832-1895. London : H. Sotheran
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