425 



CUKSOEIUS GALLICUS. 



(CREAM-COLOURED COURSER.) 



Le Cour-vite, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 128 (1781). 

 Charadrius gallicus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 692 (1788). 

 Cursorius europceus, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 751 (1790). 

 Charadrius corrira, Bonnat. Tabl. Encycl. p. 23 (1791). 

 Cursorius isabellinus, Meyer, Taschenb. deutsch. Vogelk. ii. p. 328 (1810). 

 Tachydromus, Illig. (Ch. gallicus, Gm.) Prodr. p. 250 (1811). 

 Tachydromus europceus (Lath.), Vieill. Nouv. Diet. viii. p. 293 (1817). 

 Cursor isabellinus (Meyer), Wagler, Syst. Av. Gen. Cursor, sp. 1 (1827). 

 Cursorius gallicus (Gm.), Bp. Icon. Faun. Ital. Ucc. Introd. (1832). 

 Cursor europwus (Lath.), Naum. Vog. Deutschl. vii. p. 77 (1834). 

 Tachydromus gallicus (Gm.), Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 94 (1854). 

 Cursorius pallidus, C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 279 (1855). 

 Cursorius brachydacfylus, C. L. Brehm, op. cit. p. 279 (1855). 

 Cursorius jamesoni, Jerd. B. of India, ii. p. 875 (1863). 



Cour-vite isabelle, French ; Corrione biondo, Italian ; Pluviera ta V Inghilterra, Maltese ; 

 Keruan djebeli, Arabic ; Engaiio-muchacho, in the Canaries ; europdische Rennvogel, 

 German. 



Figures notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PL Enl. 795 ; Werner, Atlas, Coureurs, pi. 5 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. 

 taf. 171; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 266; id. B. of G. Brit. iv. pi. 44; Roux, Orn.Prov. 

 pi. 269. 



Ad. rufo-isabellinus, subtus dilutior : abdomine imo fere albo : fronte magis rufescente : sincipite postico 

 nuchaque caerulescenti-cinereis : stria conspicue alba, pone oeulos in cervice confluente utrinque nigra 

 marginata : remigibus prirnariis et tectricibus primariorum nigris, illis vix brunnescente isabellino 

 apicatis, secundariis externis in pogonio externo isabellinis et in pogonio interno nigricantibus et albo 

 apicatis, intimis dorso concoloribus : cauda, isabellina, rectricibus centralibus rufescente tinctis, reliquis 

 macula subapicali nigricante notatis et ad apicem fere albis : hypochondriis nigricante lavatis, sub- 

 alaribus et axillaribus nigris : rostro nigricanti-corneo, ad basin mandibulse albo : pedibus livide griseis, 

 iride fusca. 



Juv. pallidior, nucha, vix cinereo lavato, capite fuscescente striolato, stria superciliari isabellino-albida' : corpore 

 supra fasciis lunatis obsolete fuscescentibus notato : remigibus prirnariis versus apicem isabellino mar- 

 ginatis : gutture et pectore vix pallide fusco guttatis. 



Adult Male (Gozo, 27th March). Forehead rufous sand-colour, gradually becoming grey towards the hind 

 crown, which, with the nape, is ashy blue-grey; a broad white streak passes on each side from above 



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