108 CREAM COLORED COURSER. Class II. 



GENUS VIIT. COURSER. 



Bill rather slender, bent at the tip, pointed. 



Nostrils ovate. 



Tongue sharp. 



Toes : wants the back toe. 



1. Cream Cursorius europosus. /3. C. fla- orn. 751. id. Sup. i. 254. 



vo-rufescens, lateribus capi- tah.llQ. 



tis gula abdomineque pal- Charadrius gallicus. Gm. Lin. 



lidioribus, pone oculos ma- 692. 



cula obscura, remigibus rec- Le Coure-vlte. Hist, d'ois. viii. 



tricibusque lateralibus ad a- 128. PL Enl. 7Q5. 

 picem nigris. Lath. Lid. 



[A SPECIMEN of this extremely rare bird was 

 shot near St. Albans, in East Kent, the seat 

 of JVilliam Hammond, Esq. and first described 

 and figured by Dr. Latham, in his supplement 

 to the General Synopsis. It differed in a very 

 slight degree from the Cream colored Plover of 

 that work, which he thus describes : 

 Descrip- " Length ten inches. Bill three quarters of 

 an inch, slender, bent at the top, not unlike 

 that of the Pratincole; plumage in general 

 cream color, palest beneath ; behind the eyes is 

 a patch of black ; through them a pale streak 



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