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SENEGAL COURIER. 
Tachydromus Senegalensis , Lichtenstein. 
PLATE XXIV. 
Wings five inches long ; crown entirely rufous j upper plu- 
mage, rump, and two middle tail-feathers, fawn-eolour, 
immaculate ; flanks and belly white. 
Tach. Senegalensis, Lieh., Berlin, Cat., p. 72 Cursorius Tem- 
minckii, Zool. III. i. p. 106 Cursor, ditto. Wagler, Syst. 
Avium, No. 3. — Cursorius Asiaticus, Tetnm. 
The different species of Tacltydromns , although 
few in number, are involved in much confusion ; a 
circumstance that has arisen from the great similarity 
of their plumage, no less than from the little regard 
that has been paid to their comparative characters 
and to their geographic distribution. From the 
latest results of our investigation of these birds, 
there appears to be no less than three species in- 
cluded by M. Temminck in his specific name of 
C. Asiaticus, which he says inhabits “ Africa, India, 
Senegal, and Pondicherry*. Notwithstanding this 
authority, we ventured, some years ago, to charac- 
terize the Senegal Courier as distinct from the 
others, not being aware this had already been done 
by Lichtenstein. M. Temminck, on his subsequent 
visits to England, vehemently protested against this, 
* Manuel d’Omithologie, 2d ed. ii. p. SI 4. 
