C U R SO R IU S RUFUS , Gould.
Curs, f route castaneo-rufo; occipite griseo, fascid albd cincto; Me suprd et in/rd lined angustd nigrd marginatd; nucM
rufescente; corpore summo rufescenti-lrunneo; guld albidd ; pectore pallidd-fulvo, hoc colore in fasciam ventralem
nigram mergente ; dbdomine posteriore, crissoque albis; remigibus primariis nigris; secundariis albis ; prymno rectri-
cibusque caudce ad basin brunneo-griseis, hartm duabus intermediis notd nigrd apicali, externis ferd albis; reliquis plus
minilsve ad apicem albis, nee non nigrd maculd griseum colorem cingente; rostro nigro ; digitis nigrescentibus ; tar sis
albido-jlam.
Long. tot. 9 unc. ; rostri, 1-f; alee, 5 | ; caudce, 2 ; tarsi, 3.
Forehead chestnut r ed ; 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 brown, 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, forming
a bar across the wing; bill b lack; tarsi yellowish white; toes darker.
Cursorius rufus, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc. Part IV. 1836, p. 81.
T h i s new species o f Cursorius is a native o f the islands o f the Indian Ocean, but from what particular locality
I have not been able to ascertain. In size it is directly intermediate between Cursorius Temminckii and
Cursorius Asiaticus, to both o f which species it is very closely allied; but it differs from either in the rich
rufous colouring o f the upper surface o f the body, in the triangular mark o f grey on the occiput, in the band
o f white which passes obliquely across the wings, and in not possessing a band o f white across the rump, as is
the case with Cursorius Asiaticus.
T he iigure is o f the natural size.