208 GLAREOLIDA 
coverts, tipped with white; throat, dull yellow, limited 
below by a thin, black ‘horse shoe’; front of neck and 
breast, yellowish-brown ; abdomen, white ; axillaries, reddish- 
brown. 
Adult female nuptial.—Similar to the male plumage. 
Adult winter, male and female.—Similar to the nuptial 
plumage. 
Immature, male and female.—Back and wings, mottled 
and striped transversely with black and grey; _ breast, 
streaked with brown. 
BEAK. Dark brown, red at the base behind the nostrils. 
Fret. Black. 
Iripes. Dark brown. 
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
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Allied Species and Representative Forms.—G. melanop- 
tera, with black under wing-coverts and axillaries, and no 
white wing-bar, inhabits Asia as well as Southern Russia, 
reaching South Africa in winter. 
CREAM-COLOURED COURSER. Cursorius gallicus 
(J. F. Gmelin). 
Coloured Figures.—Gould, ‘Birds of Great Britain,’ vol. iv, pl. 
44; Dresser, ‘ Birds of Europe,’ vol. vii, pl. 514; Lilford, 
‘Coloured Figures,’ vol. v, pl. 6. 
The Cream-coloured Courser is another rare wanderer 
to British shores from its home in Northern Africa and 
Southern Asia. 
In England it has visited the following counties as a 
migrant in autumn or winter :—Kent, Middlesex, Suffolk, 
Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Northumberland, Cumber- 
