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COROMANDEL COURSER. 

 (Cursorius Asiaticus.) 



Cu, Jiiscus, superciliis guld abdomine imo uropygio caudAque 



apice albis, remigibus fasciaque oculari nigris. 

 Fuscous Courser, with the eyebrows, throat, abdomen, rump, 



and tip of the tail, white 3 the quills and stripe on the eyes 



black. 



Cursorius Asiaticus. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2.^51. 2. 

 Cursorius Coromandelicus. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. J. 692. 

 Coure-vite de Coromandel. Buffi Ois. 8. 129. — Buff, PL Enl. 

 892. 



Coromandel Plover. Lath, Gen, Syn, 5. 21 7. 26. 



The following is Latham's description of this 

 bird : " Size of the former : top of the head, and 

 fore-parts, as far as the breast, reddish chesnut : 

 chin whitish : behind the eye a white streak, and 

 through the eye a black one, passing to the hind 

 head, the white entering a little way into the black 

 at the back part: behind the neck, the back, 

 wings, and tail, brown : upper part of the belly 

 dusky : the rest of the parts beneath, the rump, 

 upper tail-coverts and tip of the tail, white : quills 

 black : legs yellowish white. From the coast of 

 Coromandel,'* 



