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Both these species have a white and a black stripe 

 behind the eye. Their name is taken from the 

 rapidity with which they run. Nothing of their 

 manners is known. 



Collared Courser, Lath. H. Curs. Chalcopterus, 

 Tem. Col. 293. 



Ashy ; chest-band, black ; quills black, with a glossy 

 violet bronze spot at the end; forehead and orbit, 

 reddish- white : head, rufous ; lores and band under 

 the eye, chestnut. Senegal. 



Double Collared Courser, Lath. H. C. Bicinctus, 

 Tem. Man. Orn. 



Brown ; feathers, pale edged ; secondaries, red ; quills, 

 blackish ; cheek and nape, black banded ; neck col- 

 lars, double ; beneath, isabella. Interior of Africa. 



The Tachydromus Collaris, Vieill. Curs. Tem- 

 minckii. Swainson Zool. III. 106. Like C. Asia- 

 ticus, but larger. 



Lores, white ; chest, isabella ; abdominal band, chest- 

 nut ; middle of belly, black ; vent, brownish ; secon- 

 daries, white tipt. Length, seven and a half inches. 

 Wagler refers Charadrius Melanocephalus, Lin., 

 the genus Pluvianus of Vieil., to this genus. The 

 Tachydromus Senegalensis, Licht. Berl. Cat. 181 7- 



Cursorius Grallator, Lin. 

 Trans, xvi. 



Ochraceous ; head and back, varied brown and black ; 

 chest, with two parallel black bands Africa. 



