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Definition of Cream-colored courser
1. Noun. Courser of desert and semidesert regions of the Old World.
Generic synonyms: Courser
Group relationships: Cursorius, Genus Cursorius
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cream-colored Courser
Literary usage of Cream-colored courser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"A cream-colored courser had used to visit this hill, a bird so rare that not more
than a dozen have ever been seen in England; but a barbarian rested ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"The best-known is the cream-colored courser (Cursorius gallicus), common on arid
plains from the western Sahara to northern India. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"One of the best-known species is the cream-colored courser, or swift-foot (C.
gallicus), found almost exclusively in the East, although it has been seen as ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"... and the identification of those of birds such as the desert partridge or of
the cream-colored courser is a happy exercise for one's ingenuity. ..."
5. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"A cream-colored courser had used to visit this hill, a bird so rare that not more
than a dozen have ever been seen in England; but a barbarian rested ..."
6. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"The best-known is the cream-colored courser (Cursorius gallicus), common on arid
plains from the western Sahara to northern India. ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"One of the best-known species is the cream-colored courser, or swift-foot (C.
gallicus), found almost exclusively in the East, although it has been seen as ..."
8. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"... and the identification of those of birds such as the desert partridge or of
the cream-colored courser is a happy exercise for one's ingenuity. ..."
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