242 CHARADRIID^. 



Walker near Lanark (Zool. s,s. p. 1459), the only occur- 

 rence as yet recorded in Scotland : and was dissected by 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney, Junr., who contributed the folio wiog 

 notes : '* In the throat was a small fly undigested ; the 

 tongue is narrow, with the appearance of bristles at its base, 

 acute, and seven-eighths of an inch in length ; the oesopha- 

 gus three and a half inches long, its width inconsiderable, 

 the proventriculus three-quarters of an inch long. The 

 stomach is of the ordinary shape, compressed, an inch long, 

 and seven-eighths in breadth ; inner coat full of wrinkles. 

 The intestine only fourteen inches long ; it varies in width. 

 The caeca, which arise at a short distance from the end, are 

 about two-and-a-quarter inches in length. The sternum 

 closely resembles that of a redshank."* Mr. Gurney also 

 mentions, but without any particulars of capture, a speci- 

 men of the Cream-coloured Courser obtained by Mr. Hart, 

 the well-known bird-stuffer of Christchurch, Hants, in the 

 vicinity (Zool. s.s. p. 1512). 



In the first week of November, 1870, an eighteenth example 

 was killed on the sea-shore at Goswick, opposite Holy Island, 

 Northumberland (Zool. s.s. pp. 2522, 2562), and is now in 

 the Berwick Museum ; and with it, the list of visitants 

 closes for the present. It will be observed that, with one 

 exception, all the occurrences where the date is known, have 

 been in the autumn, and in one case it is on record that the 

 wind was southerly. 



On the Continent the Cream-coloured Courser has once 

 straggled to Holland, and on three or four occasions to 

 Northern and Central Germany. To the north of France it 

 is also an irregular visitant, nor is its appearance at all fre- 

 quent in the southern provinces, where the conditions of soil 

 and climate might appear to invite its presence. In Spain 

 the Editor only knows of a few occurrences ; and to Italy 

 its visits are very irregular, although less so in Sicily ; and 

 the same may be said of Malta, where Mr. C. A. Wright 

 has examined specimens shot in March, April, and May. 

 To the southern districts of Eussia it is also a straggler. 

 » In R. Gray's ' B. West of Scotland,' p. 250. 



