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Order IV. GRALLATORES. 



Fam. OTIDID^E. 



MACQUEEN'S BUSTAED. Otis macqueeni, Gray. 

 Hab. Afghanistan and North-west India. 



One, Kirton Lindsey, Lincolnshire, 7th Oct. 1847 : Roberts, 

 Zoologist, 1848, pp. 1969, 2065; Newman, torn, cit.p. 2146; 

 Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 457. In the Museum 

 of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society at York. 



Obs. This is not the only instance of the occurrence 

 of this species in Europe. Specimens have been met 

 with at Zeist in Holland, at Dieghem near Brussels, 

 and in Denmark. 



Fam. CHAKADRIID^E. 



CREAM-COLOURED COURSER. Cursorius gallicus, 



Gmelin. 

 Hab. North Africa. 



One near Wingham, Kent : Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl. p. 254, 



pi. 116 (1787); Montagu, Orn. Diet.; Fox, Zool. Journ. 



vol. iii. p. 493; and Naturalist, 1837, p. 133. In the 



British Museum. 



One, North Wales, 1793 : Fleming, Hist. Brit. An. p. 112. 

 One near Weatherby, April 1816 : Atkinson, Compend. Brit. 



Orn. p. 165. 



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