CUESOEIUS. 



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* # * Subc/eneric group Cursorii : with no pectoral bands. 



Central Secondary Quills. 



C. chalcopterus. 



C. gallicus. 



CURSORIUS GALLICUS. 



CREAM- COL URLJD CO URSER. 



Cursorius axillaribus subalaribusque nigris. 



Diagnosis. 



A Russian ornithologist (Zaroudnoi, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. lxi. p. 327) describes a Variations. 



Courser from Akhal Tekeh, in the basin of the Murgab River on the Persian frontiers of 



Turkestan, as Cursorius isabellinus, var. bogolubovi. He says it is larger than our bird, and 



differs in the colour of its under wing-coverts ; but he does not say how it differs, nor does 



he give any dimensions. Examples from India and Africa present no differences of any 



kind. 



Pluvialis mormellus flavescens, Gerini, Orn. Meth. Dig. iv. p. 69 (1773). 

 Charadrius cursor, Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl. i. p. 293 (1787). 

 Cliaradrius gallicus, Gmelin, Si/st. Nat. i. p. 692 (1788). 

 Cursorius europseus, Latham, Index Orn. ii. p. 751 (1790). 



Synonymy. 



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