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Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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d, is a shrill kia, kia, kiaia; thebirds swooping close to the intruders head, and also cowering overthe soil sideways or with extended wings, though this proceedingdoes not necessarily indicate the proximity of their eggs or young.The flight is very Tern-like, but when on the ground the bird runswith great rapidity. The food—often taken on the wing—consistsof insects, especially beetles, grasshoppers and locusts. The adult has the upper parts clove-brown; tips of secondaries,tail-coverts, and bases of the tail-feathers white ; throat buff, enclosedby a narrow black bridle; breast brownish-buff; belly white; axil-laries ruddy-chestnut. Length io5 ; wing 7*5 in. The sexes arealike in plumage. In the young bird the upper parts are muchmottled and barred with black and grey, and the breast is profuselystriped with dark brown. The nestlings are clove-brown with slightmottlings on the upper parts, and white below; they can run, likePlovers, on emerging from the shell. CHARADRIID/K. 519
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THE CREAM-COLOUREU COURSER. CuRSORius GALLicus (J. F. (imelin). The Cream-coloured Courser is only an irregular wanderer to thecountries north of the Mediterranean, and its specific name ispurely owing to the fact that the bird was first described from anexample killed in France. Although, however, an inhabitant ofsouthern and even desert localities, yet—such are the eccentricitiesof migration—its visits to Great Britain have been, with one doubtfulexception, between the early part of October (in which month sixindividuals are known to have been killed) and December. Kent,Middlesex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Northumber-land, Cumberland, Leicestershire, North Wales in 1793 andCardiganshire in October 1886, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset,Wilts and Hants, may be enumerated among the districts in whichit has been identified ; about a score of specimens having beenobtained altogether, inclusive of one shot on October Sth 1S68 inLanarkshire—the only instance in Sco

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