SWIFTFOOT. GRALLATORES. CURSORIUS. 217 



Grallatores, as being still more closely allied to the typical 

 members of that family, than to the Bustards, or other ge- 

 nera of the StruthionidcB. In addition to the two species 

 above alluded to, three others have been discovered, which 

 are beautifully displayed in the " Planches Coloriees. 1 ' These 

 birds are all natives of the ancient continent, inhabiting the 

 sandy deserts of Asia and Africa. Of their habits and other 

 peculiarities not much is known, but such information as we 

 possess tends to confirm the propriety of their position be- 

 tween the other genera of the present family, and the smaller 

 members of the Strulhionidce. They run with surprising 

 speed, and their flight, from the full development of their 

 wings, is swift and powerful. 



CREAM-COLOURED SWIFTFOOTf. 



CURSORIUS ISABELLINUS, Meyer. 

 PLATE XXXIII . 



Cursorius Isabellinus, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 328 Ternm. Man. 



d'Ornith. 2. 5l3.Steph. Shaw's Zool. 11. 500. pi. 37. 

 Cursorius Europseus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 2. 75 1- 1. 

 Charadrius Gallicus, Gmel. Syst. 1. 692. 



Le Court-vite, Buff. Ois. 8. 128 Id. PL Enl. 795 Lesson. 2. 20& 

 Court-vite Isabella, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 513. 

 Cream-coloured Plover, Lath. Syn. 5. 217. 25 Id. Sup. 254. t. 116 



Lewies Br. Birds, 5. pi. 187 Wale. Syn. 2. pi. 164. Mont. Ornith. 



Diet. 2 Id. Sup. 

 Cream-coloured Courser, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 1 1. 500. pi. 37. an ill-drawn 



figure. 



SINCE the publication of the First Part of the present 

 work, an instance has fortunately occurred of the Cream- 

 coloured Swiftfoot having been killed near Timber wood 

 Hill, in Charwood Forest, Leicestershire, in October 1827. 



f I have to offer a similar apology to my readers for the transfer of this 

 bird, from the First to the Second Part of these " Illustrations," that I have 

 already made in the preceding note (on the Collared Pratincole), with this 

 fortunate exception, that the representation of the Swiftfoot will be found 

 in its proper place (in Part Second of the Plates) ; as an accompanying 

 figure was not given in Part First. 



