AUSTRIAN PR.
D escription.
Pl. LXXXV.
G E n V s LXXII. P R A T I N C O L E .
N* i. Auftrian Pr. V a r . D. Madras Pr.
V a r . A. Collared Pr. N* 2. Senegal Pr.
V a r . B. Maldivian Pr. 3. Spotted Pr.
V a r . C. Coromandel Pr.
BI L L fhort, ftrong, ftrait, hooked at the end: gape wide.
Noftrils, near the bafe, linear, oblique.
Toes long, (lender, connected by a membrane at the bafe.
Tail forked; confifting of twelve feathers.
Hirundo Pratincola, Lin. Syji. i. p. 343. iz .—Kram, El. p. 381. pl. at
the end.
La Perdrix de Mer, Brif. Orn. v. p. 141. i< pl. 12. fig. 1 Oif. vii.
p. 544.— PL Enl. 882.
Hirundo marina Aldrov. Raii Syn. p. 72.
Sea Swallow of Aldrovandus, Will. Orn. p. 214.
Lev. Mu/.
g I Z E of a Blackbird: length nine inches and a quarter. Bill
ten lines and a half long, curved at the end; the bafe of it
red, the reft black : the upper parts of the bird are of a greyifh
brown : chin and throat white, furrounded with a black line,
which begins at the hinder angle of the eye, and bounds the
whole of the white parts all round : the under parts are rufous
grey, growing paler towards the vent: the upper tail coverts are
alfo of this laft colour: the quills and tail are dulky; the laft
much forked in Ihape, and tipped with grey on the inner web ;
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