118 Mr. H. Seebohm on the Genus Cursorius. 
It appears to be generally distributed throughout India 
and Ceylon; but it is more local in the south, and does not 
occur in the extreme north-west. 
6. Cursorius chalcopterus. 
The Bronze-winged Courser is the only species in the 
genus which shows the metallic colours frequently found on 
the plumage of the Lapwings and occasionally on that of the 
Wattled Lapwings. The tips of the primaries for about half 
an inch are bronzed with green and red. According to 
Heuglin this character is also found in the young in first 
plumage. 
This species has a wide range, from Senegambia in the 
west to Kordofan in the east, and to Damara Land and Natal 
in the south. 
7. Cursorius cinctus. 
Heuglin’s Courser is nearest allied to LevaillanPs Courser 
and its local races. These two species are the only Coursers 
which have no white on the secondaries beyond a narrow 
margin. In the former the secondaries are brown, but 
in the latter chestnut-buff. This character is probably 
constant at all ages. A more complicated diagnosis is :— 
Upper tail-coverts white; primaries nearly uniform dark 
brown, without buff inner webs, or large white patches, or 
bronze tips. No other Courser answers to this description. 
Heuglin obtained it on the Upper Nile. I have an ex¬ 
ample in my collection procured by Andersson at Ondonga 
in Damara Land, and Mr. Lort Phillips found it in 
Somali-land. 
8. Cursorius bicinctus. 
9. Cursorius bicinctus bisignatus. 
10. Cursorius bicinctus gracilis. 
Levaillant’s Courser, and the two local races, which do not 
appear to be more than subspecifically distinct from it, and 
which we may call respectively HartlauVs Courser and 
Fischer’s Courser, may always be recognized by the chestnut- 
buff inner webs of their inner primaries and secondaries. The 
