328 GLAREOLID^ RHINOPTILUS 



Africa. It is widely spread over the Karoo districts of the Colony, 

 all over the Orange Eiver Colony, the south-western part of the 

 Transvaal, Bechuanaland and German territory, but is not found 

 in the eastern portion of Cape Colony, Natal, or Ehodesia, so far as 

 our present knowledge goes. Like other Coursers it is probably a 

 partial migrant. 



The following are localities : Cape Colony— Beaufort West and 

 Hopetown, May (Bt. Mus.), Deelfontein resident (Seimund), 

 Grahamstown (Layard), Orange Eiver at Upington December, 

 Hanover July, August (S. A. Mus.), and near Aliwal North common 

 (Whitehead), Spaldings in Barkly West district January, and 

 Setlagoli Eiver, near Mafeking January (Ayres) ; Orange Eiver 

 Colony — Zand Eiver (Barratt), Kroonstad (Symonds), and Vrede- 

 fort Eoad June (B. Hamilton) ; Transvaal — Potchefstroom March, 

 June, October (Ayres) ; German South-west Africa — Ondonga, 

 January, Otjimbinque, February, Hountop Eiver, June (Anders- 

 son), Kransnes, January (Meek). 



Habits. — This little Courser is found in much the same country 

 as Burchell's Courser and has nearly the same habits ; it is met with 

 in open country in pairs or small parties, it runs swiftly and is 

 difficult to flush. In most places it is more abundant in the rainy 

 season than in the winter and is probably a partial migrant. It 

 feeds chiefly on ants, and, as I am informed by Major Sparrow, 

 lays one egg only on the bare ground in a slight depression. The 

 South African Museum contains an egg from Vredefort Eoad, 

 obtained on January 3rd, by Captain Barrett Hamilton. The eggs 

 are very handsome, being pale yellow in colour thickly covered 

 with fine lines, both straight and curved, of a yellowish-brown ; 

 the shape is a rounded oval, with but slight indication of the pointed 

 end, and the measurements average 1-2 x 10. 



708. Rhinoptilus seebohmi. Seebohm's Courser. 



Cursorius oinctus {nee Heugl.), Oiirney, in Aiidersson's B. Damaial. 



p. 262 (1872) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. 8. Afr . p. 656 (1884) ; 



Seebohm, Ibis, 1886, p. 118 [in part] ; id. Geogr. Distr. Charadr. 



p. 245, pi. 12 (1888) [in part] . 

 Rhinoptilus seebohmi, Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. iii, no. 13, p. 13 (1893) ; 



id. Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. 47, pi. 3, fig. 1 (1896) ; Shelley, B. Afr. 1, p. 195 



(1896) ; BeicJienow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 161 (1900). 



Description. Type, Female. — Above feathers of the head, back 

 and wings brown, broadly edged with sandy-rufous giving a mottled 



