The Coursers. 
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The Stone-Plover. 
THE 
CREAM-COLOURED 
COURSER. 
(Cursorius gallicus.) 
This rare visitor to our shores is the representative of an 
Old-World group of Plovers, which have a split palate and 
open ‘ schizorhinal’ nostrils. The tarsus is not reticulate in 
front but is plated, and on the inner side of the middle claw 
there is a curious 
comb-like series 
of notches. The 
pale tawny colour 
of the plumage, 
black quills, grey 
head and black 
line along the 
sides of the face, 
are sufficient cha- 
racters to tell the 
Courser by. It 
is found through- 
out the desert 
countries of 
Northern Africa 
The Cream-coloured Courser. 
