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During the evening you may hear them round the village, 

 for they make a clamour which may be heard a mile." 

 (PPhite's History of Selborne.) 



In autumn they migrate in flocks, probably to Spain. 



GENUS XLIII. 



CURSORIUS. 



Bill round, incurvated near the end and pointed; 

 mouth large; nostrils ovate; tongue sharp; legs and 

 feet formed for running; toes, three placed forwards; 

 no back toe: (Montagu?) 



1. EUROP^EUS. 



CURSORIUS ) CREAM-COLOURED 



ISSABELLINUS, SHAW, j" PLOVER. 



C. fuscescens, striga per oculos pallida, remigibus 

 macula pone oculos el ad apicem rectricum late- 

 ralium niyris. Lath. 



The bill is black three-fourths of an inch long, 

 slender and bent at the tip ; the plumage in general 

 of a cream colour, palest beneath ; belli nd the eyes 

 is a black patch, through which a pale streak passes 

 back to the hinder part of the Dead dividing the 

 black ; the quills are black ; tail is cream coloured, 



