CURSORIUS CINCTUS. 655 
Free State. I have often watched the waggon-drivers run after 
them with their whips ; and the birds would run a long way before 
flying, and then only for a few yards. I have seen them further 
north, but do not remember having seen them close to the 
Lydenburg Gold-fields.” Mr. Ayres has found it breeding near 
Potchefstroom, and says that “these birds frequent open ground, 
and are to be found, though not plentifully, about six miles from 
Potchefstroom, down the Mooi River, and thence right away down 
the Vaal.” During Mr. Jameson’s expedition to the Mashoona 
country, it was observed on the Siklogolo River and at Spalding’s, 
on the Hart River. Mr. Andersson writes :—‘ This Courser is not 
uncommon in various parts of Great Namaqua and Damara Land, 
chiefly during the wet season. I frequently found it plentiful in 
the neighbourhood of Otjimbinque, and comparatively tame. It 
sometimes occurs singly, at others in pairs, and occasionally in 
small flocks, each flock probably consisting of an entire family. 
This species runs with considerable celerity.”’ 
Upper parts, variegated rufous, black, dirty white, and brown ; 
each feather being the latter colour at the base, more or less tinged 
with rufous; then follows an indistinct black mark, extending in a 
point down the shaft to the tip, which is dirty white, tinged more or 
less with rufous; throat dirty white; chest and belly rufescent, 
separated by two black crescent-shaped bars; the feathers of the 
throat and chest have each a dark brown line down their centres ; 
on the belly only the shafts of some of the feathers are of this 
colour; vent and rump white; the first three pair of outer tail- 
feathers the colour of the belly ; the rest brown; legs long, 
covered with hard white scales. Length, 9” 6”; wing, 6" 3”; 
tail, 3” 3’”. 
Fig. Jard. and Selby, Ill. Orn. pl. 48. 
627. Cursortus spisienatus, Hartl. Hartlaub’s Courser. 
This species was discovered by the late Mr. Monteiro in Benguela, 
but has not since been met with by any traveller. 
It is said by Dr. Hartlaub to be allied to OC. bicinctus, but differs 
in the following points:—(1) by its much smaller size; (2) by the 
scarcely perceptible black band on the hind neck; (3) by the much 
paler colour of the back ; (4) by all the secondaries and the fifth to 
the tenth primaries being for the most part pale rufous; (5) by the 
