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4. CURSORIUS. T 



Type. 



Cursorius, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 751 (1790) C. gallicus. 



Tachydromus, lllig. Prodi: p. 250 (1811) C. gallicus. 



Cursor, Wagler, Syst. Av. p. 80 (1827) C. gallicus. 



Fig. 5. — Foot of Cursorius gallicus. 



Fig. 6. — Middle claw of right foot of C. gallicus (seen from inner side) to 

 show the pectination (enlarged). 



Range. The whole of Africa, the Mediterraneo-Persic Sub-region, 

 and the whole of India and Northern Ceylon. 



Key to the Species. 



a. No black patch on the belly. Hinder part of 



crown pale bluish or pearly grey. 

 a' Axillaries and under wing-coverts black 



like the quill-lining gallicus, p. 34. 



b' . Axillaries ashy ; under wing-coverts also 



light brown, the least series isabelline like 



the breast somalensis, p. 37. 



b. A black patch on the belly. 



c '. Hinder head grey ; secondaries with a grey 



base rufus, p. 38. 



d'. Hinder head rufous or chestnut, like the 

 rest of the crown. 

 a". A white band across the upper tail- 

 coverts ; secondaries ashy, tipped with 



white, subterminally marked with black, coromandelicus, p. 39. 

 b" . No white band across the upper tail- 

 coverts ; secondaries ashy brown, ex- 

 ternally black, with a small white tip. . temmincki, p. 41. 



1. Cursorius gallicus. 



Le Courvite, D'Aubent. PL Enl. ix. pi. 795. 



Le Coure-vite, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 128 (1781). 



Cream-coloured Courser, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 217 (1785) ; 



Yarr. Brit. B. ii. p. 376 (1843). 

 Charadrius gallicus, Gm, Syst. Nat. i. p. 692 (1788) ; Webb $ Berth. 



Orn. Conor, p. 31 (1841) ; Bolle, J.f. O. 1855, p. 175 ; id. J.f. O. 



1857, p. 335. 

 Cursorius europseus, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 751 (1790) ; Bp. Comp. 



List B. Eur. $ N. Am. p. 45 (1838) ; Schl. Rev. Crit. p. lxxx 



(1844) ; Yarr. Brit. B. (2nd ed.) ii. p. 431 (1845) ; Macgill. Brit. 



