CREAM-COLOURED COURSER. 63 



CURSORIUS GALLICUS. 



CREAM-COLOURED COURSER. 



(PLATE 20.) 



Pluvialis morinellus flavescens, Gerini, Orn. Meth. Dig. iv. p. 69, pi. 474 (1773). 



Charadrius cursor, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. i. p. 293 (1787). 



Charadrius gallicus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 692 (1788) ; et auctorum plurimorum 



(Schkyel), (Degland fy Gerbe), (Bonaparte), (Heugliri), (Salvin), (Tristram*), 



(Blyth), (Dresser), (Sounders], &c. 

 Cursorius europseus, Lath. 2nd. Orn. ii. p. 751 (1790). 

 Charadrius corrira, Bonnat. Tabl. Encycl. p. 23 (1790). 

 Cursorius isabellinus, Meyer, Taschenb. ii. p. 328 (1810). 

 Tachydromns gallicus (Gmel.}, Ittig. Prodr. p. 250 (1811). 

 Tachydromus europams (Lath.), Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. viii. p. 293 (1817). 

 Cursor isabellinus (Meyer), Wagler, Syst. Av., gen. Cursor (1827). 

 Cursorius gallicus (Gmel.), Bonap. Faun. Ital., Ucc. Introd. (1832). 

 Cursor europseus (Lath.), Naum. Vog. Deutschl. vii. p. 77 (1834). 

 Tachydromus isabellinus (Meyer), Nitzsch, Syst. Pterylogr. p. 201 (1840). 

 Cursorius jamesoni, Jerd. B. India, ii. p. 875 (1863). 



The Cream-colcmred Courser was first introduced to ornithologists by 

 Gerini, whose plate is an excellent representation of the bird. It was 

 afterwards figured in the ' Planches Enluminees/ from an example shot in 

 France. In 1788 Gmelin called it Charadrius gallicus, being apparently 

 unaware that Latham had already given it the name of Charadrius cursor 

 in the previous year. Latham, however, took his revenge two years later 

 by elevating his own specific name into a new generic one, and ignoring 

 the specific name given to it by Gmelin, having in the meantime discovered 

 that Gerini had already figured the bird eight years before the date of 

 Buffon's description, and that it was by no means confined to France. 

 The number of occurrences of this bird in the British Islands is very 

 remarkable ; they may be briefly summarized as follows : 



1785, Autumn. Wingham, East Kent (Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. i. p. 293). 



1793. North Wales (Montagu, Orn. Diet. Suppl.). 



1816, April. Wetherby, Yorkshire (Atkinson, Comp. Brit. Orn. p. 165) . 



1825. Harewood Park, Yorkshire (Gould, B. Great Brit. iv. pi. 44). 



1827, October 15th. Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire (Fox, Zool. 



Journ. iii. p. 492). 



1828, October 3rd. Aldborough, Suffolk (Acton, Mag. Nat. Hist. iv. 



p. 163). 



1828. Holme, near Market Weighton (Clarke, Handb. Vert. Fauna 

 Yorksh. p. 70) . 



