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CEEAM-COLOURED COUESER. 



CURSORIUS GALLICUS {J. F. GmeUn). 



Charadrius gallicus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 692 (1788). 

 Cursor europajus, Nauru, vii. p. 77. 

 Cursorius europseus, Macg. iv. p. 42. 



Cursorius gallicus, Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 238 ; Dresser, vii. 

 p. 425. 



Cour-vite isabeUe, French. 



Some twenty specimens of this beautiful desert-bird 

 have met with death at the hands of man in our country, 

 and their respective occurrences been duly recorded 

 by competent persons. It is difficult to assign any 

 cause for the visits of these ill-advised lovers of sun, 

 sand, and freedom from human molestation, to our 

 humid and over-populated Islands, especially as there is 

 no evidence that the Courser is even a regular local 

 migrant in Africa — the country of its birth. I have 

 never seen a Courser alive, or even recently dead, and 

 therefore I make no apology to my readers for 

 quoting at length from Mr. E. G. Meade-AValdo's most 

 interesting " Notes on the Birds of the Canary Islands," 

 published in ' The Ibis ' for 1889. I may mention that 



