3sa 



CHARADRIADiE. 



of the occiput : at the opening of the beak arises a 

 band, which is carried on to the throat, and is edged 

 with small black spots : the prevailing tint of the 

 plumage is ashy, or of an umbre-brown : the inner 

 edge of the wings and a narrow half-collar on the 

 thoracic region are dusky : the quills are terminated 

 by violet spots, and bordered by a changeable green 

 zone : the tail is dusky-brown, tipped with white, 

 and white at its base : the legs appear to be reddish : 

 the beak black. 



Cu, bicinctus. Temm. Man, d^Orn. 2 Edit. ii. p. 515. — Inhabits 

 the interior of Southern Africa. 



Cu. Temminckii. Swain. Zool. Illust. v. ii. p. 106. 



Cu. colore columbino, vertice pectoreque Jerrugineis; torquibus 

 nuchaUbus dudbus, torque inferiorej remigibus, abdomineque 

 medio nigris, torque superiore abdomineque lateribus albis. 



Cream-coloured brown Courser with the top of the head and 

 breast ferruginous 3 a double nuchal collar, the lower, with 

 the quills and middle of the body black, the upper and the 

 sides of the body white. 



Inhabits Africa. Length eight inches : beak 

 one inch from the gape, and half from the end of the 

 nostrils : the middle of the body and the quill-feathers 

 deep black, tail round, the middle-feathers not spotted, 

 the two next with a black dot near the tip, which in 

 the next pair is further broken into two white dots, 

 the outer pair white. 



GENUS CCCLXXL— STRIPSILAS, lUiger. 

 TURNSTONE. 



Generic character: vide Steph, v. x\. p. 519. 



