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Cream-Coloured Courser, Cursorius gallicus, Gmelin. 



2. A specimen of this exceedingly rare bird was shot by a shepherd at 

 Frist on, Oct. 3, 1828 (Acton in Loudon's Mag. N. H. iv. (1831), 163)5 

 Dr. Bree believed this to be the one preserved in the late Sir. Hoy's 

 Collection at Boyles Court, Brentwood, as the case which contains it 

 was labelled " Shot in 1828 " (Stevenson's B. of N. ii., 48 (note) from 

 Field for 1867, xxx., 465); the label has now disappeared, but the entry 

 in the MS. catalogue runs thus : " Courser, shot 1828; extremely rare" 

 (C. B. !). 



Inhabits North Africa, Arabia, and the Punjab; about 

 twenty examples are known to have occured in Britain; 

 the first, shot at Wingfield, Kent, in 1785, was purchased 

 at the sale of the Leverian Museum, for eighty-three 

 guineas, by Donovan; it is now in the British Museum (see 

 Saunders' Yarrell iii., 239-244). A mere straggler in France. 



Collared Pratincole, Glareola pratincola (L.). 



1. One shot near Yarmouth; in Mr. Gurney's Collection (Stevenson's 

 B. of N. ii., 65). A pair shot on Breydon Wall, May 1<">27 (Hunt in 

 Stacey's H. of N. lxix. ; Paget, Y., iO); possibly the one recorded from 

 near Yarmouth was one of these (Stevenson B. of X. ii., 65); Mr. 

 J. H. Gurney, jun., thinks Mr. Boulton, of Beverley, had the latter pair; 

 and rather doubts the authenticity of the first-named specimen {in lilt.). 



Black-winged Stilt, Himantopus Candidas, Bonnaterre. 



1. One shot at Yarmouth, purchased at Mr. Miller's sale (Newcome 

 Collection; see Stevenson's B. of N. ii., 246); occurred at Yarmouth, May 

 1842 (W. R. Fisher in Z. 182). One said to have been shot on Brevdon in 

 May 1823 (Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., bought it of Mr, E. S. Preston, but 

 never felt quite satisfied as to its authenticity); another seen there in 

 autumn 1839, it was not taken ^Stevenson's B. of N. ii., 217). One, 

 supposed to be a male, shot feeding on a shallow piece of water on 

 Outney Common, near Bungay, known as the Old River, July 1875 (H. 

 Stevenson in Z. 2nd S. 4634). 



3. One shot near Orford, in the Dennis Collection, now in the 

 Museum at Bury St. Edmund's. The sex of the bird and the date of 

 its capture are not recorded (C. B. !). 



Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Tringites rufescens (Vieillot)- 



1. One killed at Yarmouth in the autumn of 1839 or 1840, which 

 came into the possession of the late Mr. Heysham of Carlisle; another 

 Sept. 22, 1841; another on the mudflats of Breydon Sept. 20, 1843; the 

 two last are in Mr. J. II. Gurney's Collection (Stevenson's B. of JS T . ii., 

 359; W. R. Fisher in Z. 182 and 363 ; C. B. !). 



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