CURSORIINA, 533 
THE CREAM-COLOURED COURSER. 
Cursoérius GALLIcUS (J. F. Gmelin). 
The Cream-coloured Courser is only an irregular wanderer to the 
countries north of the Mediterranean, and its specific name is 
owing to the accident that the bird was first described from an 
example killed in France. Although, however, an inhabitant of 
southern and even desert localities, yet—such are the eccentricities 
of migration—its visits to Great Britain have been, with one doubtful 
exception, between the early part of October (in which month seven 
individuals are known to have been killed) and December. Kent, 
Middlesex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Northumber- 
land, Cumberland, Leicestershire, ‘North Wales’ in 1793 and 
Cardiganshire in October 1886, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, 
Wilts and Hants, may be enumerated among the districts in which 
it has been identified ; and altogether about a score of specimens 
have been obtained, inclusive of one shot on October 8th 1868 in 
Lanarkshire—the only instance in Scotland. The species has not 
yet been noticed in Ireland. 
As a straggler this Courser has occurred once near Liége in 
Belgium, once in Holland, once (in 1835 or 1836) in Heligoland, 
three or four times in Northern and Central Germany, and to about 
