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coverts, tipped with white ; throat, dull yellow, limited 

 below by a thin, black 'horse shoe'; front of neck and 

 breast, yellowish-brown ; abdomen, white ; axillaries, reddish- 

 brown. 



Adult female nuptial. Similar to the male plumage. 



Adult winter, male and female. Similar to the nuptial 

 plumage. 



Immature, male and female. Back and wings, mottled 

 and striped transversely with black and grey ; breast, 

 streaked with brown. 



BEAK. Dark brown, red at the base behind the nostrils. 



FEET. Black. 



IEIDES. Dark brown. 



AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 



TOTAL LENGTH ... 10'5 in. 



WING 7-5 



BEAK ... ... ... 0-8 



TARSO-METATARSUS ... 1'25 ,, 



EGG 1-15x0-9 in. 



Allied Species and Representative Forms. G. melanop- 

 tera, with black under wing-coverts and axillaries, and no 

 white wing-bar, inhabits Asia as well as Southern Eussia, 

 reaching South Africa in winter. 



CREAM COLOURED COURSER. Cursorius gallicus 

 (J. F. Gmelin). 



Coloured Figures. Gould, 'Birds of Great Britain,' vol. iv, pi. 

 44; Dresser, 'Birds of Europe,' vol. vii, pi. 514; Lilford, 

 ' Coloured Figures,' vol. v, pi. 6. 



The Cream-coloured Courser is another rare wanderer 

 to British shores from its home in Northern Africa and 

 Southern Asia. 



In England it has visited the following counties as a 

 migrant in autumn or winter : Kent, Middlesex, Suffolk, 

 Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Northumberland, Cumber- 



