Glareola maldivarum Forster, 1795

Wilson, John-James, 2021, Birds from Sumatra given by Sir Stamford Raffles to Lord Stanley: links to names, types and drawings, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 141 (1), pp. 39-49 : 46

2149 [3192b]. Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum Forster, 1795

In 1825, Stanley listed an unsexed specimen as ‘ Glareola Orientalis ’ and ‘Oriental Pratincola [sic]’,ȱbutȱtheȱspeciesȱdoesȱnotȱappearȱinȱRaffles’ȱ(1822)ȱcatalogueȱorȱseemȱtoȱbeȱinȱVigors’ȱ catalogueȱ(Rafflesȱ 1830).ȱ Glareola orientalis ȱ Leachȱ wasȱ describedȱ andȱ figuredȱ(Leachȱ 1821)ȱ inȱ theȱ sameȱ volumeȱ ofȱ theȱ Linneanȱ Societyȱ transactionsȱ asȱ Raffles’ȱ catalogue,ȱ basedȱ onȱ aȱ specimenȱ inȱ Parisȱ broughtȱ fromȱ Javaȱ byȱ M.ȱ Leschenaultȱ (Horsfieldȱ 1821).ȱ Stanley’sȱ G. maldivarum specimen is at NML (accession number D3192b). Oriental Pratincole is principally an uncommon migrant and winter visitor to Sumatra ( van Marle & Voous 1988), but has bred in the north of the island (Eaton et al. 2016).