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though Stoliczka preserved none I have received specimens 
thence.—A. O. H. | 
840 d1s.—Cursorius gallicus, Gmel. 
The European Courier Plover or Cream-colored Courser is 
also common all over the plains during the cold weather, asso- 
ciating in small flocks of from five to twenty or thirty. It is 
an interesting bird to watch when on the ground, and in its 
actions much resembles Chettusia gregaria. When feeding 
they run rapidly for a few yards and then stop standing for a 
second or two very erect ; again they dart off in another direc- 
tion, pick up an insect, and again stand still watching for the 
next victim. They are easily approached if you walk round 
them as recommended for Florican, with the exception that it 
is better to approach these birds alone than to send another 
person round them, as they don’t often squat, and therefore are 
likely to take wing if you attempt to surround them. On the 
wing they much resemble Pterocles exustus, for which species, 
I have nodoubt, they are often mistaken, as they utter a low 
clucking note very similar to that bird, and fly in much the 
same style and at much the same altitude. The flesh is excellent 
eating. They arrive about the 28th September and often asso- 
ciate with the preceding species. 
(Occurs, and I think far more abundantly than the preceding 
species, throughout the entire region, except in Kattiawar, 
whence I have seen no specimens, and where if it occurs at all 
it must, as Captain Hayes Lloyd suggests, occur on the northern 
shores or the eastern neck of the peninsular. But Kattiawar 
is outside the southern limits of this species, which I believe may 
be pretty accurately represented by a line drawn from the south- 
eastern corner of the Runn to a point on the Jumna a few 
miles south of Delhi.] 
[844.—Squatarola helvetica, Lzn. 
I obtained thisin Northern Guzerat on the shores of the 
Runn, found it very abundant about the Kurrachee Harbour, 
and have seen it from other places along the coasts of Sindh, 
Cutch and Kattiawar. Inland and in Jodhpoor I do not know 
of its occurring except when migrating in autumn and spring, 
when stragglers are met with at many large pieces of water. 
Mr. Adam obtained one in ful breeding plumage at the Sam- 
bhur Lake on the 25th September.—A. O. H.] 
845.—Charadrius fulvus, Gimel. 
The Golden Plover is rare, and those I have seen have invari- 
ably been single birds or small parties in company with the 
next species. It arrives about the beginning of October. 
