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Title: The genera of birds : comprising their generic characters, a notice of the habits of the genus, and an extensive list of species referred to their several genera
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Gray, George Robert, 1808-1872 Mitchell, David William
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

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vers,lakes, and marshes, both in the plains and on the mountains. Their food consists chiefly of worms, flies, orthopterousand aquatic insects, which they take on the wing like the swallows, and on the ground, where they can run veryquickly. They form a slight nest on the surface of the ground, among the rushes and thick herbage in the marshes,wherein they deposit several eggs. 1. G. pratincola (Linn.) Pall. PI. enl. 882. — Glareola austriacaGmel. Leach, Linn. Tr. xiii. pi. 12.; Glareola nsevia Gmel; Glareolasenegalensis Gmel.; Glareola torquata Meyer. 2. G.Nordmanni Fisch. — Glareola pratincola Pall. 3. G. limbata Riipp. 4. G.orientalis Leach, Linn.Tr.xiii.pl. 13. 5. G. Isabella Vieill. Gal. des Ois. t. 263. — Glareola grallariaTernm.; Glareola australis Leach, Linn. Tr. xiii.pl. 14. 6. G. lactea Temm. Man. ii. 503., PI. col. 399- 7. G. cinerea Fras. Proc. Z. S. 1843. 26. * Brisson established this genus in (Ornithologie) 1760; and in 1777 Scopoli proposed Trachelia. May, 1844.
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