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crown to the occiput; gula with a bluish-black skin ; at the 
bottom of the nucha a space destitute of feathers, covered with 
down ; irides reddish brown ; legs black, scaly. Three feet three 
inches long. Inhabits Europe. 
Genus 6. — CURSORIUS.— Latham. 
Generic Character .—Bill shorter than the head, depressed at 
the base, somewhat curved near the point, and sharp at the 
tip ; nostrils ovate, with a small callosity behind them; legs 
long and slender; feet with three anterior toes only, entirely 
divided, the interior one shortest; claws small, obtuse ; wings 
extending beyond the tail; second quill the longest. 
Cursorius Asiaticus .— The Coromandel Courier. 
Plate XLII*. fig. 2. 
Crown of the head, neck, breast, and abdomen, bright 
chestnut; wings, back, and tail-coverts, yellow fawn-colour; 
crissum and tail dull-white; venter with a black longitudinal 
streak; a black streak reaches from the base of the bill across 
the eyes, to the nape of the neck, over which is another streak 
of white; bill gray •, quills black; legs and feet pale yellow- 
green. Eight inches long. Inhabits Coromandel. 
ORDER XIII.—GRALLATORES. 
Bill varied in its form ; generally straight, in the shape ot an 
elongated cone, compressed, and sometimes, though seldom, de¬ 
pressed ; legs long, slender, frequently naked above the knee ; 
feet with three toes before and one behind; the hallux articu¬ 
lated, on a level with the anterior toes; sometimes a little 
higher. 
Sub-Division I. — Having three toes only. 
Genus 1—CEDICNEMUS.— Temminck. 
Generic Character .—Bill somewhat longer than the head, 
straight, robust, compressed at the point, with a carinated ridge; 
lower mandible forming an angle with the upper one ; nostrils 
