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COURSER. 



3.— COLLARED COURSER. 



LENGTH twelve inches and a half. Bill dusky, shaped much 

 as in the first species, base half of the lower mandible dull orange ; 

 the gape wide, extending as far as the eyes beneath ; forehead to the 

 eyes buff-colour, continuing as a streak over the eyes, and beyond ; 

 top of the head brown ; back and wing coverts the same, but paler, 

 approaching to fawn-colour; quills black, with a glossy violet bronze 

 towards the ends ; the base within for some way white, appearing as 

 a long patch on the wing; bastard wing large, and black ; the chin 

 is nearly white; throat and breast dull buff; across the breast a 

 dusky bar; from thence all beneath white; under wing coverts 

 whitish buff; the base of the tail for one-third is white, then brown, 

 the two outer feathers pale at the tips, and the exterior the same on 

 the outer web ; all the others have the tips buff; shape of the tail 

 rounded ; legs bare for one inch above the joint; shins two inches 

 long, and toes in proportion ; the segments of the shins fourteen or 

 fifteen, and very distinct, and the upper part next the joint remark- 

 ably broad, with a deep furrow in front for half an inch. 



The above is in the collection of W. Comyns, Esq. but without 

 any history attached. It seems to approach in many things to the 

 Coromandel Species, but is a larger bird. 



4.-DOUBLE-COLLARED COURSER. 



Cursorius bicinctus, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. p. 515. 



LENGTH ten inches. Bill short, black; top of the head brown, 

 varied with rufous ; cheeks, neck, and nape, Isabella-colour, streaked 

 longitudinally with brown ; on the lower part of the neck a collar 



