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Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Identifier: cu31924000047815 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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CURSORIIN^. 533
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THE CREAM-COLOURED COURSER. Curs6rius gXllicus (J. F. Gmelin). The Cream-coloured Courser is only an irregular wanderer to the countries north of the Mediterranean, and its specific name is owing to the accident that the bird was first described from an example killed in France. Although, however, an inhabitant of southern and even desert localities, yet—such are the eccentricities of migration—its visits to Great Britain have been, with one doubtful exception, between the early part of October (in which month seven individuals are known to have been killed) and December. Kent, Middlesex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Northumber- land, Cumberland, Leicestershire, 'North Wales' in 1793 and Cardiganshire in October 1886, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Wilts and Hants, may be enumerated among the districts in which it has been identified; and altogether about a score of specimens have been obtained, inclusive of one shot on October 8th 1868 in Lanarkshire—the only instance in Scotland. The species has not yet been noticed in Ireland. As a straggler this Courser has occurred once near Libge in Bdgium, once in Holland, once (in 1835 or 1836) in Hehgoland, three or four times in Northern and Central Germany, and to about

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