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Genus LXXXI. COURIER. 



N° 1. Italian C. 



I LL fhort, (trait. 



Legs long: thighs fhort: feet palmated, and furnifhed 

 with a back toe. 



Le Coureur, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 542. 

 ITALIAN C. Trochilus, or Corrira, Rail Syn. 118. 3. — Will, Orn. p. 321. pi. 60. 



Description. r T'HIS bird is laid to be lefs than the Avofet, and the legs not 

 ib long in proportion. The bill fhorter, {trait, yellow, with 

 a black tip : irides of two colours, firft white, furrounded with 

 chefnut : the head, and all the upper parts of the body and wings, 

 are ferruginous : the under parts white : the two middle tail fea- 

 thers are white, tipped with black : the others fuppofed to be 

 black : toes webbed, as in the Avofet. 

 Plac£. This bird is faid to inhabit Italy, and to run very faff ; whence 



the name given to it. Aldrovandus * is the only one who has 

 feen the bird ; and it is from him alone that the fucceeding 

 authors have all had the defcription and figure. 



* Aw, torn iii. p. 28S. fig. in p. 289. 



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