I30 CURSORES—CYPSELOMORPH^ 



and the hind-toe, as in most Charadriiclx, is wanting. This Curlew 

 seems to have been an especial favourite ^^dth Gilbert White, in 

 whose classical writings mention of it is often made. Its range 

 extends to North Africa and India, though examples from the 

 latter country have been regarded as requiring specific distinctions. 

 Foiu- other species of CEdicnemtis from Africa are recognized by Mr. 

 Seebohm (op. cit. p. 71). Australia possesses a very distinct species, 

 CE. grallarius, which some Avriters have raised to a genus Burhinus, 

 and there are 3 species in the Neotropical Eegion, GE. bistriatus, CE. 

 dominicensis, and CE. superciliaris. The analogy of all these birds to 

 the Otididx (Bustard), is manifest, but that they have any really 

 close affinity to that Family is questionable. An exaggerated form 

 of CEdicnemus is found in jEsacus, of which two species have been 

 described, one ^. recurvirostris, from the Indian, and the other, JE. 

 magnirostris, from the northern parts of the Australian Region. 



CURSORES, an Order of Birds proposed by Illiger in 1811 

 [Prodrom. Syst. Mammal, et Avium, pp. 246-250) to contain the 

 genera Casuarius (Cassowary), StridMo (Ostrich), Rhea, Otis 

 (Bustard), Charadrius (Plover), Calidris (Sanderling), Himantopus 

 (Stilt), Hxmatopus (Oyster-catcher), Tacliydromus ( = Cursorius, 

 Courser), and Burhinus (Stone- Curlew). Notwithstanding the 

 obviously artificial nature of this group, several authors have 

 accepted it, some entirely, but others with so many modifications 

 that the meaning of the term has become quite indefinite. 



CURUCUI, a Brazilian word adopted, through the French, by 

 yn some English authorsJor the Trogons. 

 i^ /^.^ cK^r t*- '775 ( '/*^ • <f- /, , ^ ). 



CUSHAT, a common name for the Ring-DOVE or Wood- 



PiGEON. 



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 /" CYPSELOMORPH^, Prof. Huxley's name {Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1867, p. 468) for the group of ^githognath^ containing the 

 Families Cap'imulgidx (Goatsucker), Cypsclidx (Swift), and 

 Trochilidx (Humming-bird), which he considers to be "annectent 

 forms between the Coracomorph.e and the Coccygomorph^." 



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