5(X) 
CREAM-COLOURED COURSER. 
(Ciirsorius isabellinus.) 
Cu. Jitscescens, striga per oculos pallida, remigilms macnld pone 
oculos et ad apicem rectricum lateralium nigris, abdcmiine 
albido. 
Fuscescent Courser, with a pale stripe through the eyes; the 
quills, spot beneath the eyes, and at the tip of the lateral tail- 
feathers, black ; the abdomen whitish. 
Cursorius isabellinus. Meijer. — Temm. Man, d'Orni.'^A2. 
Cursorius Europasus. Lath. hid. Orn.2. 751. 1. 
Charadrius Gallicus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. ]. 6l2. 27* 
Le Coure-vite. Buff. Ois. 8. 128. — Buff. PI. Enl. /Q5. 
Coure-vite isabelle. Temm. Man. d'Orni. 342. 
Cream-coloured Plover. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 2) 7- 25. — Lath. 
Syn. Sup. 254.pl. 11 6. — Leiv. Brit. Birds. 5. pi. 1 87. — Wale. 
Syn. 2. pi. 164. — Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. — Mont.Orn. Diet. Sup. 
Length ten inches : beak black, three-quarters 
of an inch long ; the forehead, under parts of the 
body, neck, back, tail, and wing-coverts, of a 
reddish cream-colour; the latter edged with grey : 
the throat whitish : behind the eyes a double black 
stripe : the abdomen whitish : the whole of the la- 
teral tail-feathers black towards the tip, with a small 
spot of white in the centre of the black: legs yel- 
lowish. 
This rare species is a native of Africa, and has 
three times been captured in the southern and 
temperate parts of Europe ; which being an acci- 
dental circumstance, I have adopted the name 
proposed by Meijer and Temminek, as the one 
