60 Mr. C. H . B. Grant on a Collection of 



59. Cursorius temminckii. Temrninck's Courser. 

 Cursorius temminckii Sw. Zool. Illustr. ii. 1822, pi. 106 : 



Senegal {cf. Sw. Birds W. Afr. ii. 1837, p. 230). 



a. ^ ad. Lemek Valley. Oct. 6. 



b, c. ^ 2 ad. Kamchurn, L()borDist.,3200ft. Feb. 13. 

 Total length in flesh: 8 inches. Wing: (J 127 & 



126 mm. ; $ 125 mm. 



All three are in good clean dress; they are rather darl- 

 coloured specimens and have a dark tinge across the fore- 

 head ; tliey are, however, matched by specimens from boih 

 west and sonth Africa, and I can see no constant character 

 that differentiates the eastern birds. 



[Irides brown; bill black, base of lower mandible whitish; 

 legs and toes cream or white. Contents of stomach, insects. 

 Tolerably common.] 



60. Rhinoptilus africanus gracilis. Two-banded Courser. 

 Cursorius gracilis Kisch. & Reichw. J. f. O. 1884, p. 178 : 



Masailand. 



a. (J ad. Kijabe, 6200 ft. Sept. 24. 



Total length in flesh: 8 inches. Wing: 132 ram. 



In somewhat worn dress and moulting on body. 



[Irides brown; bill black; legs and toes white. Seen 

 only two or three times.] 



In naming this bird I have examined carefully all the 

 races of this Courser and have come to the following 

 conclusions : — 



Rhinoptilus africanus africanus Temm. 



Cursorius africayius Temra. Cat. Syst. Cab. Orn. 1807, 

 p. 175, and p. 263 : Namaqualand. 



A large, rather pale form. Wing : 161-147 mm. 



Range. Little and Great Namaqualand and Damaraland 

 across to Bechuanaland (part). 



Of this Cursorius hicinctvs Temm. (Man. d'Orn. ii. 1820, 

 p. 515 : Interior of Africa, ex Le Vaillaut, as is Teraminck's 



