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261. ^Egialitis vocifeka. 
Kill-deer Plover. 
This American bird has been added to the list of our fauna from the circumstance of a specimen having 
been killed in Hampshire in 1857. 
Genus Eudromias. 
The type and almost the only representative of this genus is the well-known Dotterel, which passes over 
the British Islands in May. 
262. Eudromias morinellus , . Vol. IV. PI. XLIII. 
- Dotterel. 
Spring and autumn migrant ; breeds in Westmoreland and the adjoining counties. 
Genus Cursorius. 
A small genus of highly interesting birds which persistently keep to the regions of the Old World, and 
almost exclusively to Africa and Asia. Swift of foot, they have been called Coursers. They are said to trip 
over the ground with great nimbleness, their movements then presenting no inapt resemblance to pieces of 
paper blown about by the wind. They naturally inhabit great sandy wastes rather than cultivated and arable 
lands ; and hence the only European species is but seldom seen. 
263. Cursorius gallicus ........... Vol. IV. PI. XLIV. 
Cream-coloured Courser. 
Quite an accidental visitor to the British Islands. 
Genus H^matopus. 
Although not very numerous is species, there is scarcely any country on the face of the globe where this 
form is not represented. In the southern hemisphere, at Cape Horn in America, the Cape of Good Hope in 
Africa, in the southermost portion of Tasmania and in New Zealand, a bird of this form is certain to be seen, 
while in the opposite hemisphere they are nearly as constant. These birds are commonly known by the 
misnomer of Oyster-catchers. 
264. HiEMATOPUs ostralegus Vol. IV. PI. XLV. 
Oyster-catcher. 
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A resident species round our coasts. 
