PLOVERS. 



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direction of Christchurch (J. C. Dale) ; and a third 

 was seen by the late Mr. W. Thompson in November 

 1855, flying over the Weymouth Backwater. 



Fam. Chakadriid.i:. 



CREAM-COLOURED COURSER. Cursonus galliras (Giiielin). 



Y'O-reU, iii. p. 238; Hnrting, p. 131 ; Dresser, vii. p. 425; See- 

 hohni, iii. p. 63 ; Ibis List, p. 156. 



The Cream-coloured Courser is a rare and acci- 

 dental straggler. The present Lord Digby, when 

 following the hounds in the year 1853, observed one 

 on Batcombe Down, and the next day the Earl of 

 Ilchester sent his keeper A"\\alton, who found and 

 shot it. It is now preserved in the Melbury col- 

 lection. 



