372 THE BIRDS OF KENT 



Pratincole (Glareola melanoptera) was shot by Mr. F. 

 Mills near Dungeness Point. This is the first occur- 

 rence of this species in the British Isles, and is recorded 

 by me in the Bulletin of the B.O.C., xcix.^ This speci- 

 men is now in the collection of Mr. Fleetwood Ash- 

 burnham, of Broomham Park, Sussex " {Zoologist, 1903, 

 p. 421). 



Another example is recorded by Lieutenant Boyd 

 Alexander : " An adult male was shot on Komney Marsh 

 on June 17, by a man named Jones, and is now in the 

 collection of Mr. Fleetwood Ashburnham, of Broomham 

 Park, Hastings " {Bulletin of the B.O.C., vol. xiv., p. 17, 

 1904.) 



Family CHARADRIID^. 



Genus CURSORIUS, Latham. 



CEEAM-COLOUEED COUESEE. 



Cursorius gallicus (Gmelin). S.N., i., p. 692, 



(1788). 



The records in the last edition of Yarrell's British 

 Birds, 1882-84, of the Cream-coloured Courser in Kent, 

 are as follows : " The earliest occurrence of the Cream- 

 coloured Courser in England appears to be that of 

 the specimen shot in 1785 by William Hammond, Esq., 

 of St. Alban's Court, near Wingham, in East Kent, who 

 presented the specimen to Dr. Latham, who gives the 

 following account in his Synopsis of Birds, Supplement 



1 Vol. xiii., p. 78, 1903. 



