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with reddish brown ; the upper tail coverts are 

 white as in the male, but marked indistinctly with 

 brown ; the tail is dark brown, barred with huffish 

 brown, and tipped with pale buff. The young some- 

 what closely resemble the female in colour. The 

 total length of this Harrier is about nineteen or 

 twenty inches, females being a trifle larger than 

 males. 



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