656 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
belly from the throat downwards, the under wing-coverts and under 
tail-coverts being pure white; (6) by the inner webs of the quills 
being rufous white below; (7) by the outer tail-feather being 
entirely white. 
Fig. Hartl. P. Z. S. 1866, pl. vi. 
628. Cursorious crncrus, Heugl. Heuglin’s Courser. 
This rare species was discovered by Baron yon Heuglin at 
Gondokoro on the White Nile, and the late Mr. Andersson 
obtained a pair at Ondonga in the Ovampo country in January, 
1867. Senor Anchieta has collected specimens at Humbe on the 
Cunene River. 
The following is a translation of the description given by 
Professor Bocage :— 
Upper part of the head dark brown with the edges of the 
feathers tinged with buff; forehead, lores, and auricular spot white 
washed with buff; the feathers of the upper surface of the body 
brown with broad edges of grey washed with rufous or buff, and 
inclining to white on the wing-coverts; upper tail-coverts white ; 
a white band bordered with black on each side of the head, 
commencing above the eye, and uniting in a point with that of 
the opposite side; throat, sides of the neck and fore-neck and the 
lower parts white; a band of maroon brown, commencing behind 
the eye, skirts the auricular spot and forms with that of the 
opposite side a V-shaped mark on the fore-neck ; behind this 
band keeping to a great extent parallel with it a black band 
loses itself on the sides of the breast in a space varied with 
brown and buff; two transverse bands on the breast, one black, 
the other rufous, separated by an intervening space of white; 
primary quills blackish; tail pale brown shaded with rufous, 
marked near the tip with an indistinct black band; the outer 
tail-feather white, the next one with the outer webs varied with 
white; bill blackish yellow at the base; feet greyish; iris brown. 
Fig. Heugl. Ibis. 1863, pl. 1. 
629. Cursorius cHaLcoprerus, J'emm. Bronze-winged Courser. 
We have never seen a specimen of this Courser from the colony, 
though Mr. Jules Verreaux assured us that when he was in South 
