Pennant in 173 
(Gen. 6. P 13) 
130 CURSORES—CYPSELOMORPHZ 
and the hind-toe, as in most Charadriidx, is wanting. This Curlew 
seems to have been an especial favourite with Gilbert White, in 
whose classical writings mention of it is often made. Its range 
extends to North Africa and India, though examples from the 
latter country have been regarded as requiring specific distinctions. 
Four other species of Gidicnemus from Africa are recognized by Mr. 
Seebohm (op. cit. p. 71). Australia possesses a very distinct species, 
(EZ. grallarius, which some writers have raised to a genus Burhinus, 
and there are 3 species in the Neotropical Region, @. bistriatus, GZ. 
dominicensis, and CE. superciliaris. The analogy of all these birds to 
the Otididx (BUSTARD), is manifest, but that they have any really 
close affinity to that Family is questionable. An exaggerated form 
of @dicnemus is found in A’sacus, of which two species have been 
described, one 4’. recurvirostris, from the Indian, and the other, 4. 
magnirostris, from the northern parts of the Australian Region. 
CURSORES, an Order of Birds proposed by Illiger in 1811 
(Prodrom. Syst. Mammal. et Avium, pp. 246-250) to contain the 
genera Casuarius (CASSOWARY), Struthio (OSTRICH), RHEA, Otis 
(BusTaRD), Charadrius (PLOVER), Calidris (SANDERLING), Himantopus 
(Stitt), Hematopus (OYSTER-CATCHER), Jachydromus ( = Cursorius, 
CoursER), and Burhinus (Stone-CURLEW). Notwithstanding the 
obviously artificial nature of this group, several authors have 
accepted it, some entirely, but others with so many modifications 
that the meaning of the term has become quite indefinite. 
CURUCUL, a Brazilian word adopted, through the French, by 
some English authors,for the TROGONS. 
CUSHAT, a common name for the Ring- Dove or Wood- 
PIGEON. . 
CUT-THROAT, see Weaver-bird, 
CYPSELOMORPH, Prof. Huxley’s name (Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1867, p. 468) for the group of A‘GITHOGNATH# containing the 
Families Caprimulgide (GOATSUCKER), Cypselide (SWIFT), and 
Trochilide (HUMMING-BIRD), which he considers to be “annectent 
forms between the CoRACOMORPH& and the CoccYGOMORPH.” 
