502 
COROMANDEL COURSER. 
(Cursorius Asiaticus.) 
Cv. JuscuSi superciliis guld ahdomine hno uropygio caudAque 
apice albis, remigibus Jasciaque oculari nigris. 
Fuscous Courser, with the eyebrows, throat, abdomen, rump, 
and tip of the tail, white j the quills and stripe on the eyes 
black. 
Cursorius Asiaticus. Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 751. 2. 
Cursorius Coromandelicus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1.692. 
Coure-vite de Coromandel. Btiffl Ois. 8. 129. — Buff. PL Enl. 
892. 
Coromandel Plover. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 217* 26. 
The following is Latham’s description of this 
bird : “ Size of the former : top of the head, and 
fore-parts, as far as the breast, reddish chesnut : 
chin whitish : behind the eye a white streak, and 
through the eye a black one, passing to the hind 
head, the white entering a little way into the black 
at the back part : behind the neck, the back, 
wings, and tail, brown : upper part of the belly 
dusky : the rest of the parts beneath, the rump, 
upper tail-coverts and tip of the tail, white : quills 
black : legs yellowish white. From the coast of 
Coromandel,” 
