■44 CUES0E1IDJE. 



Cursorius bicinctus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 515 (1820) ; Jard. # 

 Selby, III. Orn. i. pi. 48 (c. 1839) ; Gray, List Grail. Brit. 3Ius. 

 p. 61 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 537 (1844) : Sold. Mus. Pays-Bas, 

 Oursores, p. 11 (1863 : S. Africa) ; Marti. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 61 

 (Damara-land) : Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 290 (1867) ; id. Ibis, 1869, 

 p. 76 (Nieuw Veldt) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 19, no. 10040 (1871) ; 

 Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 263 (Transvaal); Gurney in Anderss. B. 

 Dam. Ld. p. 261 (1872: Gt. Namaqua; Damara-land); Heugl. 

 Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. Abth. i. p. 975 (1873); Barratt, Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 212 (Orange Free State) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1877, p. 347 (Potchef- 

 stroom, breeding) ; id. Ibis, 1880, p. 266 ; Holub $ Pelz. Beitr. 

 Orn. Siklafr. p. 247 (1882: Orange River ; Molapo) ; Sharpe,ed. 

 Layard 's B. S. Afr. p. 654 (1884 : Hope Town ; Grahainstown ; 

 Free State ; Cape Colony) ; Sytnonds, Ibis, 1887, p. 334 (Kroon- 

 stadt) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distrib. Charadr. p. 242 (1888). 



Cursorius grallator, Leadb. Trans. Linn. Soc. n. s. xvi. p. 92 (1825). 



Cursor bicinctus, Wagl. Syst. Av. Cursor, p. 80, sp. 4 (1827). 



Tachydronius bicinctus, Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 231 (1837) ; 

 Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat., Gall. p. xxx, Taf. 375. nos. 2133-34 

 (1852) ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 94 (1854). 



Rhinoptilus bicinctus, Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 363 (Siklogolo River; 

 Hart River) ; Heine fy Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 339 

 (1890: Cape). 



Cursorius bicinctus bisignatus {nee Hartl.), Sevbohm, Ibis, 1886, 

 p. 118; id. Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 243 (1888). 



Adult male. General colour above sandy buff, mottled ; the 

 feathers of the upper surface brown, edged with sandy buff, before 

 which is a sub-terminal bar of black ; wing-coverts like the back, 

 but the sub-terminal black bars rather broader ; bastard-wing black, 

 the outer feathers edged with sandy rufous ; primary-coverts and 

 outer primaries black, with a shade of rufous on the inner web ; the 

 inner primaries and secondaries cinnamon-rufous, with narrow 

 whitish tips, before which is a broken vermiculation of narrow 

 blackish bands, which is more distinct on the outer web of the inner 

 secondaries, which have more brownish shading on the inner webs ; 

 the innermost secondaries brown, with sandy- coloured margins, 

 rufescent towards the ends, which are sandy-coloured and separated 

 from the sub-terminal rufous shade by a zigzag line of black, which 

 extends along the outer web, forming a sub-terminal line of black ; 

 feathers of the lower back and rump brown, edged with sandy 

 rufous, before which is a sub-terminal bar of black ; upper tail- 

 coverts white ; tail-feathers blackish, rufescent towards the ends, 

 with brown bars and white notches or bands ; the two outer tail- 

 feathers white, with a slight rufous shade near the ends, and with 

 a brown bar, the penultimate feather mottled with brown on the 

 inner web ; crown of head like the back, and squamated in the 

 same way, but more minutely ; lores and a broad eyebrow sandy 

 buff ; sides of face and throat sandy buff, narrowly streaked with 

 blackish ; across the fore neck a narrow black band, extending on 

 each side to the sides of the neck, followed by a broad band of sandy 

 buff on the lower fore neck, which is followed by a second band of 



