730 GLAREOLACURSORIUS 



Hob. India, Ceylon, Burma, the Andamans and Nicobars ; 

 South-eastern Siberia, Mongolia, and China, south to the 

 Malay Archipelago and North Australia. 



In habits and nidification it does not differ from G.pratincola, 

 and its eggs are undistinguishable from those of that species. 



1018. NORDMANN'S PRATINCOLE. 

 GLAREOLA MELANOPTERA. 



Glareola melanoptera, Nordin. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. ii. p. 314 

 (1842); Gould, B. of As. vii. pi. 63; Dresser, vii. p. 419, pi. 513, 

 fig. 2 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxiv. p. 57 ; G. nordmanni, Fischer, 

 Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. ii. p. 314, pi. 2 (1842). 



Tirkuschka stepnaya, Russ. 



< ad. (Ked Sea). Differs from G. pratincola in having the upper parts, 

 breast, and flanks rather darker, the secondaries not tipped with white, 

 and the under wing-coverts and axillaries jet black. Culmen 0*75, 

 wing 7*3, tail 4*3, tarsus 1'4 inch. 



Hob. South-east Europe, in Russia north to about 

 N. lat. ; Africa south to Natal; Asia Minor and Asia east to 

 the Altai Mountains. 



In general habits and nidification it does not differ from 



G. pratincola, and its eggs resemble those of that species, but 



appear, as a rule, to have the ground-colour more ochreous in 

 tinge and the markings are bolder. 



CURSOBIUS, Lath., 1790. 



1019. CREAM-COLOURED COURSER. 

 CURSORIUS GALLICUS. 



Cursorius gallicus (Gmel.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 692 (1788) ; Hewitson, Ibis, 

 1859, p. 79, pi. ii. fig. 3 (egg) ; Gould, B. of E. pi. 266 ; id. B. of 

 Gt. Brit, iv. pi. 44 ; Dresser, vii. p. 425, pi. 514 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. 

 Br. Mus. xxiv. p. 34 ; Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. Birds, iv. p. 211 ; 

 Saunders, p. 533 ; Lilford, v. p. 19, pi. 6 ; Poynting, p. 11, pi, 3 ; 

 C. europceus, Lath. Ind. 0m. ii. p. 751 (1790)) ; Naum. vii. p. 77, 

 Taf. 171 ; C. isalellmus, Meyer, Taschenb. Deutsch. Vogelk. ii. 

 p. 328 (1810) ; C. isabellinus var. bogolubovi, Zarudn. Bull. Soc. Imp. 

 Nat. Mosc. (7), Ixi. p. 327 (1885). 



