500 



CREAM-COLOURED COURSER* 



(Cursorius isabellinus.) 



Cu. Juscescensj strigd per oculos pallida^ remigibus macula pone 

 oculos et ad apicem rectricum lateralium nigris, abdomine 

 albido. 



Fuscescent Courser, with a pale stripe through the eyes j the 



quills, spot beneath the eyes, and at the tip of the lateral tail- 



feathersj black ; the abdomen whitish. 

 Cursorius isabellinus. Meijer. — Temm. Man. d^Orni, 342. 

 Cursorius Europ^eus. Lath. Ind. Orn,1. 751. 1. 

 Charadrius Gallicus. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1. 6l2. 27. 

 Le Coure-vite. Buff. Ois. 8. 128. — Buf. PI. Enl. 795. 

 Coure-vite isabelle. Temm. Man. d'Orni. 342. 

 Cream-coloured Plover. Lath. Gen. Syn, 5. 217. 25. — Lath. 



Syn. Sup. 254.pl. 11 6. — Lew. Brit. Birds. 5. pi. \ S7.—Walc. 



Syn.l.pl. l64.^Mont. Orn, Diet. 2. Mont. Or n. Diet. Sup. 



Length ten inches : beak black, three-quarters 

 of an inch long : the forehead, under parts of the 

 body, neck, back, tail, and wing-coverts, of a 

 reddish cream-colour ; the latter edged with grey : 

 the throat whitish : behind the eyes a double black 

 stripe : the abdomen whitish : the whole of the la- 

 teral tail-feathers black towards the tip, with a small 

 spot of white in the centre of the black : legs yel- 

 lowish. 



This rare species is a native of Africa, and has 

 three times been captured in the southern and 

 temperate parts of Europe ; which being an acci- 

 dental circumstance, I have adopted the name 

 proposed by Meijer and Temminek, as the one 



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