Gould. 
CURSORIUS RUFUS, 
Curs, fronte castaneo-rnfo ; occipite griseo, fasciA albd cincto ; Me suprcl et infra lined angustd nigrd marginata ; nucM 
nfescente ; corpore summo nfescenti-hrunneo ; guld albidd ; pectore pallide-fulvo, hoc colore in fasciam ventralem 
nigram mergente ; abdomine posteriore, crissoque albis ; remigibus primariis nigris ; secundariis albis ; prymno rectri- 
cibusque caudee ad basin brunneo-griseis, harum duabus intermediis notd nigrd apicali, externis fere albis, reliquis plus 
minusve ad apicem albis, nec non nigrd maculd griseum colorem cingente ; rostro nigro ; digitis nigrescentibus ; tarsis 
albido-favis. 
Long. tot. 9 unc. ; rostri, 1^ ; alee, 5^ ; caudee, 2 ; tarsi, 3. 
Forehead ehestnut red ; occiput grey, bounded by a line of white, which is externally margined with black ; back 
of the neck and all the upper surface and breast rufous broAvn, passing into black on the centre of the belly ; 
throat white ; hinder part of the belly and vent white ; primaries black ; secondaries tipped with white, form- 
ing a bar across the wing ; bill black ; tarsi yellowish white ; toes darker. 
Cursorius rufus, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc. Part IV. 1836, p. 81. 
This new species of Cursorius is a native of the islands of the Indian Ocean, hut from what particular locality 
I have not been able to ascertain. In size it is directly intermediate between Cursorius Temminchii and 
Cursorius Asiaticus, to both of which species it is very closely allied ; but it differs from either in the rich 
rufous colouring of the upper surface of the body, in the triangular mark of grey on the occiput, in the band 
of white which passes obliquely across the wings, and in not possessing a band of white across the rump, as is 
the case with Cursorius Asiaticus. 
The figure is of the natural size. 
