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COURSER. 



CREAM-COLOURED COURSER. CREAM-COLOURED PLOTER. 

 CREAM-COLOURED SWIFTFOOT. 



Cursorius Europcexs, MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



" Isabellinus, FLEMING. SELBY. 



Oursorius. CurroTo run. Europaus European. 



THIS elegant bird is a native of Africa, and most plentiful, 

 it is said, in Abyssinia. A few specimens have occurred in 

 France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, and Italy. 



One was shot near Wetherby, in the West-Riding of 

 Yorkshire, in April, 1816; a second by the gamekeeper of 

 Lord Harewood in 1825; and a third by the keeper of the 

 Hon. Charles Stourton, of Holme, near Market Weighton, 

 in the East-Riding; one in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, 

 on the 15th. of October, 1827. It was the last bird figured 

 by Bewick! In 1793 one was shot in North Wales, by 

 George Kingston, Esq., of Queen's College, Oxford; another 

 was killed near Wingham, Kent, by William Hammond, Esq., 

 of St. Alban's Court. 



It appears to be by no means shy. 



This species, as denoted by its name, indeed by each of them, 

 'mutato nomine,' runs with extreme celerity, and also flies 

 with great power. 



Male; length, ten inches; bill, pale brown at the base % 

 nearly black at the tip, and arched; iris, pale yellowish grey; 

 over it is a white streak passing to the nape, below it from 

 the eye is a velvet black one, both meeting behind. Forehead 

 and crown, pale buff orange, the hinder part shading into 

 grey, below which is a triangular spot of black, met by the 

 line from each eye; the neck in front, pale reddish buff white; 



