PRATINCOLE.
COLLARED PRATINCOLE. AUSTRIAN PRATINCOLE.
Glareola lorquala, MEYER.
Glareola Austriaca, LATHAM.
Hirundo marina, RAY.
Hirundo Pratincole, LINNJEUS. GMELIN.
Glareola— ? Tonjuata—Ringed. Torques—A ring.
THE Pratincole is abundant on the continent of Europe in Hungary,
Dalmatia, Turkey, and Sclavonia; and is met with in Holland, Germany,
France, Switzerland, Italy, Sardinia, and Malta. In Asia it is
common in Tartary, and in the region between the Black Sea a nd
the Caspian Sea. I t also belongs to Africa.
In this county, in 'Yorkshire to wit,' one was obtained in May,
IS 11, on Staxton Wold, near Scarborough, as recorded by W. M. E .
Milncr, Esq., M.P., in t he 'Zoologist/ page 2023. It was at the time
in company with a flock of Dotterels. One in Northumberland, at
Bedlington, the beginning of February, 1850. In Devonshire two
were seen by the Hon. T. L . Powys, and W . W . Butler, Esq., at t he
mouth of the River Exe, on the 7th. of September, 1851. In Norfolk
a pair were shot on the Breydon-wall, near Yarmouth, in May,
1827; other instances have, I believe, occurred in that county: one
in the harbour of Blakeney, in May, 1840. One was killed near
Liverpool, on the 18th. of May, 1804. In Lancashire one near Ormskirk,
in 1807. In Lincolnshire a specimen was shot by Frederick
Oates, Esq., of Branston Hall, near Lincoln, on t h e l o t h , of August,
1827; another is said to have been seen at Tetney, in the winter of
1840. In Cambridgeshire one on Wilbraham Fen, in May, 1835.
In Zetland one was shot in Unst, b y Mr. M. Bullock, August 16th.,
1812.
I n Ireland one in the county of Cork.
Sandy places, near rivers or other water, are its natural haunt, and
low meadows, where doubtless its insect food abounds.