48 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
bird more particularly), which after all may have been 
described as females under the impression that a far 
ereater sexual difference existed during the winter 
season. 
The little bustard breeds abundantly in some parts 
of France, but in Germany, singularly enough, it is 
only known, as in our own country, as an annual winter 
visitant, though irregular in the time and place of its 
occurrence. 
CURSORIUS EUVUROPAUS, Latham. 
CREAM-COLOURED COURSER. 
This very rare straggler, from more southern climes, 
has not hitherto been included amongst our accidental 
visitants, but having been killed once in the adjoining 
county,* and observed on two separate occasions in 
* In the “Magazine of Natural History” for 1831 (vol. iv., 
p- 163), in “A list of scarce birds killed in Suffolk since the autumn 
of 1827, sent as addenda to the list of Mr. J. D. Hoy, of Stoke- 
by-Nayland (vol. iii., p. 436),” Mr. Edward Acton, of Grundis- 
burgh, states that a bird of this species was “shot at Freston, near 
Aldborough, on October 3rd, 1828, by a shepherd of the name of 
Smith,” and this specimen is believed by Dr. Bree (“ Field,” 1867, 
vol. xxx., p. 465) to be the one preserved in the late Mr. Hoy’s collec- 
tion, at Boile’s court, near Brentwood, the case containing Mr. 
Hoy’s bird, being labelled, “shot in 1828.” This example is not 
mentioned by Yarrell, but in the five instances given by that 
author of the occurrence of the cream-coloured courser in England 
—one in Kast Kerft, which is now in the British museum, and was 
figured and described by Latham in the first supplement to his 
“General Synopsis of Birds” (pl. 116, p. 264), published in 1787, 
and said (see “ Zool. Jour.,” iii., p. 493, and “ Naturalist,” 1837, vol., 
i, p. 183) to have been purchased subsequently by Donovan for 
eighty-tlree guineas; one in North Walesin 1793; one at Wetherby 
