204 RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST. 
167. CREAM-COLOURED COURSER, Cursorius gallicus 
(Gmel.) 
On the gth of March we saw a pair on the plain at Gow, 
and on the 27th of April I found a single bird at the same 
place. He ran like a greyhound ; but, by makinga stalking- 
horse of a camel, I managed to get a long shot. He had 
been eating white grubs about 1} inches long. Mr. Cory 
showed me a couple which he had shot, I think he said at 
Golosanah, but it cannot be considered by any means a 
common bird. The legs are white. 
Oxps. HOUBARA BUSTARD, Houbara undulata (Jacq.) 
T hoped to have got this bird at the Faioum. The 
overseer of the sugar factory there knows it well. 
He said they were not uncommonly brought in 
by the Arabs: he had one alive three months, 
168. CRANE, Grus communis, Bechst. 
(Hasselquist, p. 207). 
Iam not positive what was the last date on which we 
saw the Crane. We thought we saw two on the 17th of 
May,; but if they really were Cranes, they were stragglers, 
behind the main body which had departed north some 
weeks before. They are said to be common in winter, but 
I did not see one before February 14th. He was ona 
sandbank with some Herons. As he towered above his 
lesser brethren I felt no doubt of what he was, but we were 
just then scudding along before a famous breeze, and could 
not stop even for a Crane, But at Gebel-Tair on the 
28th of February, nineteen were counted. Even this was 
nothing to what we saw afterwards. At Siout and Gow 
