CREAM-COLOURED COURSER. 
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used by Latham is not applicable : the manners of 
the bird are unknown. 
One of the three before-mentioned specimens 
was shot near St. Alban’s, in Kent, the seat of 
William Hamond, Esq., who presented it to Dr. 
Latham, with the following account. It was 
first met with running upon some light land, and 
so little fearful was it, that after having sent for a 
gun, one was brought to him which did not readily 
go off, having been charged some time, and in 
consequence missed his aim. The report frightened 
the bird away; but after making a turn or two, it 
again settled wnthin a hundred yards of him, when 
he was prepared with a second shot, which dis- 
patched it. It was observed to run with in- 
credible swiftness, and at intervals to pick up 
something from the ground ; and was so bold as 
to render it difficult to make it rise from the 
ground, in order to take a more secure aim on the 
wing. The note was not like any kind of Plovers, 
nor indeed to be compared with that of any known 
bird.” This specimen found its way into the Le- 
verian Museum, at the time of the sale of which it 
was purchased from Fichtel, who had bought it, by 
that zealous British naturalist, Donovan, for the 
sum of eighty-three guineas. It is now deposited 
in the British Museum. 
