CREAM-COLOURED COURSER 209 
land, Leicestershire, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, 
Wilts, and Hants. It has also visited North Wales and 
Cardiganshire. It may be noticed that the above counties 
are maritime, with the exception of Wilts, Leicestershire, 
and Middlesex. 
A bird from Kent about 1787 (Harting, ‘ Handbook of 
British Birds,’ 1901, p. 410), and a bird from North Wales 
in 1793, are probably the earliest captures recorded. The 
Fig. 29.—CREAM-COLOURED COURSER. 
most recent occurrences appear to be those of two speci- 
mens, one obtained in Wiltshire, on October 10th, and 
another in Jersey, on October 19th, 1896. 
The Cream-coloured Courser has not been recorded as 
@ spring-migrant on its passage northward. 
In Scotland it has once been obtained, namely in 
Lanarkshire, on October 8th, 1868 (Gray, ‘ Birds of the 
West of Scotland,’ p. 250). 
As yet it has not been included in the Irish List. 
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