. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . es of theGlareoltc, it is only necessary to inspect the intestinal canalof a single specimen. The birds to which they might be orhave been assimilated, namely, the Swallows, Goatsuckers,Grouse, and Sandpipers, have digestive organs well charac-terized. jNIr. Gould, who might have settled the question,still remarks :— I have for many years questi
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . es of theGlareoltc, it is only necessary to inspect the intestinal canalof a single specimen. The birds to which they might be orhave been assimilated, namely, the Swallows, Goatsuckers,Grouse, and Sandpipers, have digestive organs well charac-terized. jNIr. Gould, who might have settled the question,still remarks :— I have for many years questioned the pro-priety of placing the Pratincoles in the same group with thePlovers, or even in the same order, beheving them as I doto be a terrestrial form of the Fissirostral birds. Linnne\isplaced them near the Swallows, and I think he was right inso doing; and Mr, Blyth, one of the most philosophical ofornithologists, entertains, I believe, the same opinion; butas nearlv all other writers have placed them with the Chara-driadtv, I have adopted their view of the subject, and haveaccordingly placed them in that group. Mr. Thom])Son,also, places it at the head of the Plovers. 49 GLAKEOLA PRATINCOLA. THE COLLAREDPRATINCOLE. AUSTRIAN IHi. i. Tail deeply forked; whigs nearhj as long; upper partsfjreyish-hroicn ; taU-covcrfs white ; throat pale reddisJi-yclloin,tnargined icith tico narrow hands, the inner white, the outerblack; lower wing-coverts deep hrownish-red. Hirundo Pratincola. lAiin. Syst. Nat. I. Glarcola austriaca. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 753. Glareola torquata. Austrian Pratincole. Flem. Brit. Anim. 94. Austrian Pratincole. Mont. Ornith. Diet. Supplt. Glarcole a collier. Glareola torquata. Temm. Man. dOmith. II. 500. Collared Pratincole. Glareola torquata. Selby, lUustr. Brit. Ornith. Glareola Pratincola. Collared Pratincole. Jen. Brit. Yert. Anim. 216. Glareola Pratincola. Bonap. Comp. List. 45. Mai,e.—The Collared Pratincole is about the .
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