36 CURS0RIID.E. 



1889, pp. 11, 505 (Fuerteventura) ; Tristr. t. c. p. 25 (Gran 

 Canaria) ; St. John, t. c. p. 175 (Pishin Valley) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 

 1892, p. 21 (Heligoland) ; Meade- Waldo, Ibis, 1893, p. 203 (Canary 

 Is.); Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. iii. p. 5 (1893: Suakin); Lilford, 

 Col. Fig. Br. B. part xxviii. (1894). 



Cursorius pallidus, Brehm, Vogelf. p. 279 (1855). 



Cursorius brachydactylus, Brehm, Vogelf. p. 279 (1855). 



Cursorius jaraesoni, " Jerd.," Stoliczka, J. A. S. Beng. xli. p. 250 

 (1872 : Kutch) ; Hume, Str. F. i. p. 219 (1873). 



Cursorius isabellinus, var. bogolubovi, Zarudn. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. 

 Mosc. (7) lxi. p. 327 (1885 : Murgab River). 



Adult male. General colour above isabelline-buff ; wing-coverts 

 like the back, the greater coverts and inner secondaries a little more 

 sandy rufous ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and primaries black ; 

 the secondaries black, sandy-coloured externally, fringed with white 

 at the ends ; tail-feathers sandy rufous, tipped with white, before 

 which is a black sub-terminal band ; fore part of crown sandy rufous ; 

 the hinder crown and nape bluish grey, concealing a black nape- 

 patch ; loral feathers isabelline-white ; from above the eye a broad 

 white band joining on the nape, followed by a black band from 

 behind the eye above the ear-coverts to the nape ; feathers below 

 the eye whitish ; ear-coverts sandy rufous ; fore part of cheeks and 

 upper throat white ; lower throat and under surface of body sandy 

 isabelline, becoming whiter on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; 

 under wing-coverts, axillaries, and quill-lining black ; the lesser 

 wing-coverts round the edge of the wing sandy rufous : " bill dusky 

 black, angle of mouth and base of mandible white ; feet livid yellow ; 

 iris umber-brown " (yon Heuglbi). Total length 9 inches, culmen 1, 

 wing 6-35, tail 2-35, tarsus 2-25. 



Adult female. Similar in colour to the male. Total length 

 9 inches, culmen G'95, wing 6 - 2, tail 2-3, tarsus 2-1. 



Young. Reproduces the colours of the adult, but has wavy bands 

 all over the upper surface. 



Specimens from Western localities are rather more sandy in colour, 

 and have often less black on the sub-terminal band of the tail. 



Hah. Desert countries of the Mediterranean, and the Canary and 

 Cape Verd Islands ; eastwards to Arabia, Socotra, Persia, Afghan- 

 istan, and N.W. India. 



a. Ad. sk. Sicily. Seebohm Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Cape Verd Islands. M. A. Bouvier [C.]. 



c. d. Ad. ; e, f. Fuerteventura. E. G. Meade- Waldo, 

 Pull. st. Esq. [P.]. 



g. Ad.sk. Algerian Sahara (J.H. Gurney). Hume Coll. 



h. Juv. sk. Tunis. L. Fraser [C.]. 



i. Imm. sk. Tripoli. Purchased. 



h, I. Ad. sk. Egypt. Hon. C.Berkeley [P.]. 



m. Ad. sk. Egypt, Feb. 4 (G. E. S.). Seebohm Coll. 



n. <3 ad. sk. Upper Egypt, Dec. (Stafford Seebohm Coll. 



Allen), 



o, p, q. Ad. sk. Near Cairo, Feb. Dr. Worthington 



[P.]. 



r. Ad. sk. Suakin, Red Sea. Capt. R. H. Penton 



Dp.]. 



