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Definition of Pratincoles
1. pratincole [n] - See also: pratincole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pratincoles
Literary usage of Pratincoles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Birds of Great Britain and Ireland: Parts 1-4 by William Jardine (1866)
"... pratincoles. TH K remarkable genus Glareola or Swallow Plovers, to be placed
next, continued for some time uncertain of its proper station; ..."
2. Birds' Nests: An Introduction to the Science of Caliology by Charles Dixon (1902)
"... Birds—Tropic Birds and Vultures—Ringed Plover—Coursers and
pratincoles—Stone-Curlew—Gulls and ..."
3. The World's Birds: A Simple and Popular Classification of the Birds of the World by Frank Finn (1908)
"Rapid and easy in Coursers, much as in plovers; in pratincoles slow, but graceful
... The Coursers are solitary ground-birds; the pratincoles are social, ..."
4. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1884)
"Author that a pair of pratincoles was shot on the Breydon- wall, ... The occurrence
and capture of this pair of pratincoles is mentioned in the Messrs. ..."
5. Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves by Laura Riley, William Riley (2005)
"... pratincoles rise in spiral columns, catching warm-air thermals. White-winged
pratincoles nest colonially on rock outcrops in ..."
6. The Birds of India: Being a Natural History of All the Birds Known to by Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1864)
"... The pratincoles, as they are sometimes called, are a peculiar group of birds
which ... join the pratincoles with the Courier-plovers to form one family. ..."
7. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1855)
"The pratincoles hare the bill short, arched, and deeply cleft, with the nostrils
oblique (Fig. 160) ; the legs rather long and elender, with the tibiae ..."
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