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^* Suhgeneric group Cursorii : with no pectoral hands. 



Central Secondary Quills. 



C. chalcopterus. 



C. gallicus. 



CURSORIUS GALLICUS. 



CBEAM-COLOTJBED COUBSHB. 



CuRsoRius axillaribus subalaribusque nigris. 



Diagnosis. 



A Russian ornithologist (Zaroudiioi, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. Ixi. p. 327) describes a Variations. 



Courser from Akhal Tekeh, in the basin of the Murgab Eiver on the Persian frontiers of 



Turkestan, as Cursorius isahellinus, var. bogolubovi. He says it is larger than our bird, and 



differs in the colour of its under wing-coverts ; but he does not say how it differs, nor does 



he give any dimensions. Examples from India and Africa present no differences of any 



kind. 



Pluvialis morinellus flavescenSj Gerini, Orn. Meth. Dig. iv. p. 69 (1773). 

 Charadrius cursor, Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl. i. p. 293 (1787). 

 Charadrius gallicus, Gmelin, Si/st. Nat. i. p. 693 (1788). 

 Cursorius europseus, Lat/iam, Index Orn. ii. p. 751 (1790). 



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