GLAREOLID®. 325 
but paler, and albescent towards the vent and under tail-coverts ; 
lower wing-coverts deep brown. 
The Cream-colored Courser is a not uncommon cold weather 
visitant to Northern Guzerat; it does not occur in the Deccan. 
In Sind it isa permanent resident, breeding during May and 
June. 
_ The eggs are barely distinguishable from those of the preceding 
species, 
Famity, Glareolide. 
Bill short, arched; gape very large; wings long; tail even or 
forked; tarsus rather short, reticulated; hind-toe present, but 
small. 
Genus, Glareola, Brisson. 
Bill short, convex, arched from the middle; gape very deeply 
cleft ; nostrils basal, oblique, semi-tubular; wings narrow, very 
long and pointed, with the first quill longest ; tail short and even, 
or long and forked; tarsi moderate, reticulated, slender; four 
toes ; outer-toe united at the base tothe middle one by a short 
web ; middle-claw pectinated ; hind-toe not touching the ground ; 
nails pointed. 
Glareola orientalis, Leach. 
842.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 631; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 425 ; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology 
of Sind, p. 222. 
| THE LARGE SWALLOW PLOVER. 
Length, 10; expanse, 24; wing, 75; tail, 45; tarsus, 1:25; 
bill at gape, 0°98. 
> Bill black ; gape red ; irides dark-brown ; feet dusky-black. 
- Upper plumage, including the head, pale hair-brown ; orbits 
white beneath, feathered; quills blackish, the shaft of first 
primary white externally ; upper tail-coverts white ; tail with the 
feathers white at their base, broadly tipped with blackish-brown ; 
beneath, the chin and throat rufous, surrounded by a black line 
from the gape; below this the breast and abdomen are rufous- 
earthy, passing into white on the lower abdomen, vent, and under 
tail-coverts ; axillaries and posterior portion of the under wing- 
eoverts chesnut. 
The Large Swallow Plover is rare in the Deccan, but is common 
in Sind. It breeds in the latter district during April and May. 
The eggs, two or three in number, are deposited on the ground, 
in a depression, and are broad oval or nearly spherical in shape; 
they are of a light dirty-green color, or even drab, covered with 
dark purple blotches and spots, occasionally forming a zone at the 
large end. 
- They measure 1:26 inches in length by 0:95 in width. 
