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insisting that it was an error. Of late, however, he 

 seems to have altered his opinion, but he still mis- 

 takes the Indian and the South African Courier as 

 the same. M. Lichtenstein also appears to have fallen 

 into this latter error*, his Coromandelicus being the 

 South African species (which he probably collected 

 on his travels in that region), and not the Indian, 

 which is much larger and more brightly coloured. 

 This later species (our T. oriental** J will be found 

 described in another placet, while that which seems 

 peculiar to Southern Africa (our T. Capensis) will 

 in all probability be illustrated by Dr. Smith, who 

 has brought home fine specimens from that region. 

 Besides these are two others, likewise found in the 

 African continent, so that the species already de- 

 termined will stand thus, 

 Tachydromus Europceus^ Europe. 

 i Orientalis 9 nob. India. 



Capensis, do. South Africa. 



Burchelli, do. Class, of Birds, ii. 



Senegalensis, Lich., Western Africa. 



bicinctus, Temm., Man. ii. 515, South Africa. 



cliakopterus, do. PI. Col. 298. 



The latter is an aberrant species, connecting this 

 group in the most perfect manner with that of 

 Glareola, while the Pluvian du Senegal of the PL 

 Enl. 918, is the type of our sub-genus Ammoptila. 

 It still remains questionable whether there is not a 

 second species found in India, independent of our 

 Orientalis, and obscurely intimated by Wagler under 

 the name of Cursor framatus ; while Dr. Latham's 

 * Berlin Catalogue of Duplicates. f Classif. of Bird*. 



