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Glareola is a genus of birds in the family Glareolidae. 
The genus name is a diminutive of Latin glarea, "gravel", referring to a typical nesting habitat.

1/ Oriental pratincole (Dô nách nâu, Óc cau, Glareola maldivarum), also known as the grasshopper-bird or swallow-plover
The species name maldivarum refers to the type locality, the ocean near the Maldive Islands.

2/ Small pratincole, little pratincole, or small Indian pratincole (Dô nách xám, Glareola lactea)

Glareolidae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Lari, order Charadriiformes. It contains two distinct groups, the pratincoles and the coursers.

Oriental pratincole 
(Dô nách nâu, Óc cau, Glareola maldivarum), also known as the grasshopper-bird or swallow-plover

The oriental pratincole (Glareola maldivarum) is a wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae.
The bird is native to Asia, breeding from North Pakistan and the Kashmir region, the Maldives and Sri Lanka, Indochina, eastern China, Manchuria and the Philippines. 
This species is migratory and winters throughout the Indomalayan realm and northern Australia.

Charadrius (Latin/Greek): From Ancient Greek kharadrios (χαραδριος), a term for a yellowish, nocturnal bird found in ravines or clefts (kharadra, "ravine").

Charadriiformes derives from Latin and Ancient Greek, meaning "plover-shaped" (from Charadrius + -iformes). It stems from the Greek kharadrios, a bird of ravines/river valleys.

The family and genus name (Glareolidae, Glareola) is a diminutive of Latin glarea, "gravel", referring to a typical nesting habitat.
The genus name is a diminutive of Latin glarea, "gravel", referring to a typical nesting habitat.
The species name maldivarum refers to the type locality, the ocean near the Maldive Islands.

Small pratincole, little pratincole, or small Indian pratincole (Dô nách xám, Glareola lactea)

The small pratincole (Glareola lactea) is a small wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae.
The bird is a resident breeder in India, Western Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Charadrius (Latin/Greek): From Ancient Greek kharadrios (χαραδριος), a term for a yellowish, nocturnal bird found in ravines or clefts (kharadra, "ravine").

Charadriiformes derives from Latin and Ancient Greek, meaning "plover-shaped" (from Charadrius + -iformes). It stems from the Greek kharadrios, a bird of ravines/river valleys.

The family and genus name (Glareolidae, Glareola) is a diminutive of Latin glarea, "gravel", referring to a typical nesting habitat.

Lactea is the feminine form of the Latin adjective lacteus, meaning "milky," "milk-white," or "composed of milk". It is derived from lac (milk) and is famously used in the phrase via lactea, meaning "Milky Way" or "milky road".