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CHARADRIID.E. 



GRALLATORES. 



CHAUADRIID.E. 



THE CREAM-COLOURED COURSER. 



Cursoriiis Exiropceus, Cream-coloured Plover, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. 



p. 383. 

 ,, Isahellinns, ,, Courser, Fi.em. Brit. An. p. 112. 



,, ,, ,, Swiftfoot, Seley, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. 



p. 217. 

 ,, ,, ,, Courser, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 176. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Goui.D, Birds of Europe, 



pt. vii. 

 ,, ,, Courtvite Isahelle, Temm. Man. d'Ornith.vol. ii. 



p. 513. 



CuRSORius. Generic Characters. — Beak shorter than the head, straight, 

 and rather depressed at the base, slightly convex tovv'ards the end, and pointed. 

 Nostrils oval, with a small protuberance. Tarsi long and slender; toes, three 

 only, all in front, middle toe almost as long again as the lateral toes. Wings 

 long, ratrier pointed ; the first and second quill-feathers the longest in the wing. 



