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CURSORIUS EUROPJEUS. THE CREAM- 

 COLOURED COURSER. 



CREAM-COLOUttED PLOVER. 



Adult with the bill black, the feet yellowish; the plumdgc 

 pale brownish-yellow, lighter on the lower parts; the fore 

 part of the head reddish, the hind part grey, with a trian- 

 gular black spot on the nape ; two bands, a white ana a black, 

 from the eye to the occiput ; the primaries black. Young 

 with the upper part of a duller tint, icith undulated angular 

 transverse dusky lines. 



Cursorius europoeus. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 751. 



Cream-coloured Plover. Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Coirrt-vite isabelle. Cursorius isabellinus Ternm. Man. d' Ornith. II. 513. 



Cursorius isabellinus. Cream-coloured Courser. Flem. Brit. Anim. 112. 



Cream-coloured Swift-foot. Cursorius isabellinus. Selby Illust. Brit. 



Ornith. II. 217. 

 Cursorius isabellinus. Cream-coloured Courser. Jenyns. Brit. Vert. Anim. 



176. 

 Cursorius Europaeus. Bonap. Comp. List. 45. 



Male. — This species is somewhat inferior in size to the 

 Golden Plover, and of a more slender form, having the body 



