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side of the head is pale clay color; chin and throat soiled white ; back, 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and wing-coverts grayish wood 

 brown; primaries black, the three innermost narrowly tipped with 

 pure white ; rectrices light drab, the external feather edged externally 

 and broadly tipped with white, the next feather narrowly tipped with 

 white; breast, upper abdomen, and sides light drab; axillars soiled 

 white; under wing-coverts light drab, except those bordering the 

 edge of the wing which form a band of slate color ; lower abdomen 

 and crissum soiled white. 



Measurements of type (adult female). — Length of skin, 190; 

 wing, 130; tail, 52; culmen (chord), 24; tarsus, 54. 



Remarks. — The geographical forms of Cursorius gallicus (Gmelin) 

 have been elucidated and figured by Erlanger 1 and Zedlitz. 2 



CURSORIUS TEMMINCKII JEBELENSIS, new subspecies 

 Jebel River Courier or Courser 



Type-specimen. — Adult male, Cat. No. 216167, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 collected at " Rhino Camp," Lado Enclave, on the left (west) bank 

 of the Bahr-el- Jebel, latitude 2 55' North, some fifteen miles north 

 of Wadelai on Albert Nyanza, in the Egyptian Sudan, Africa, Jan- 

 uary 11, 1910, by Edgar A. Mearns. (Original number, 17991.) 



Characters. — Smaller than Cursorius temminckii temminckii 

 Swainson ; 3 general color of upper parts darker, also differing from 

 temminckii in the following particulars : upper side of head tawny 

 instead of ochraceous-tawny ; upper side of neck, mantle, back, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, middle pair of rectrices, wing-coverts, and exposed 

 portion of inner secondaries buffy brown instead of wood brown; 

 upper breast light drab, of precisely the same shade as in Cursorius 

 gallicus meruensis, described above, instead of avellaneous; lower 

 chest with only a trace of the tawny color anterior to the black 

 abdominal center. 



Measurements of the type (adult male). — Length of skin, 175; 

 wing, 114; tail, 42; culmen (chord), 20; tarsus, 37.5. 



Average measurements of two adult males of Cursorius tem- 

 minckii temminckii ( from the Loita Plains, Southern N'guassO' Nyiro 



^ourn. fur Ornith., 1905, pp. 56-58, pi. 1. 



2 Journ. fur Ornith., 1910, pp. 306, 307, pi. 6. 



* Cursorius Temminckii Swainson, Zoological Illustrations, Vol. 2, 1822, pi. 

 106, described on the succeeding page ("arid tracts of Africa, at a distance 

 from the sea"). Swainson's colored figure was made from a specimen in the 

 Leadbeater collection, which perhaps came from South Africa. 



