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One, a young male, Easington, in Holderness, Oct. 17, 

 1896: Cordeaux, Zool, 1896, p. 433; Harting, Proc. 

 Linn. Soc, 1896-97, p. 2. 



One, Pitfour, Aberdeen, Oct. 24, 1898 : Eagle Clarke, Ann. 

 Scot. Nat. Hist., 1899, p. 73. 



Obs. These are by no means the only instances of 

 the occurrence of this species in Europe. Five were 

 met with in North Germany between 1800 and 1847 ; 

 others at Utrecht (in Dec. 1850, preserved in the 

 Leiden Museum), and at Zeist, in Holland ; at 

 Dieghem, near Brussels ; on the island of Oeland 

 one from a flock of six in Schleswig ; one in Poland 

 one in Silesia ; one near Helsingfors, in Finland 

 and one in Livonia in Sept. 1880. 



Order VIIL LIMICOLiE 



Fam. CHARADRIID^. 



CREAM-COLOURED COURSER. Gursorius gallicus, 

 GmeHn. PL 24, figs. 9, 9a. Length, 10 in.; bill, 

 1 in. ; wing, 6'25 in. ; tarsus, 2*25 in. 



Hah. North Africa, Arabia, Persia, and North -West 

 India. 



One near Wingham, Kent: Latham, "Gen. Syn.," Suppl. 



p. 254, pi. 116 (1787); Montagu, " Orn. Diet.;" Fox, 



Zool. Journ., vol. iii. p. 493 ; and Nat, 1837, p. 133. In 



the British Museum. 

 One, North Wales, 1793: Fleming, "Hist. Brit. An.," p. 



112; Montagu, "Suppl. Orn. Diet." 

 One near Weatherby, Yorkshire, April 1816 : Atkinson, 



" Compend. Brit. Orn.," p. 165. 

 One, Yorkshire, 1825 : Gould (fide Lord Harewood), " Birds 



of Great Britain ;" Clarke, "Handb. Yorks. Vert.," p. 70. 



