CURSOEIUS. 



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Central Secondary Quills. 



O. somalensis. 



C. bicinctus. 



CURSORIUS SOMALENSIS. 



SOMALI C0VR8EE. (Plate XL) 

 CuEsoRius axillaribus supracaudalibusque isabellinis. 



No local races of this species are known. 



Diagnosis. 



Variations, 



Cursorius gallicus somalensis, Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 415. 

 Cursorius somalensis, Shelley, Seebohm, Ibis, 1886, p. 116. 



Synonymy. 



Plates. — Unfigured. 



Habits.— Lort Phillips, Ibis, 1885, p. 416. 



Eggs. — Unknown. 



Literature. 



The Somali Courser is a good species, which may be diagnosed as having the kind Specific 

 head slate-grey (like C. gallicus and C. rufus), but the axillaries and innermost under wing- ^'^'*^^'^*®^^- 

 coverts greyish huff (instead of nearly black). It further differs from C. gallicus in the 



