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Rough-legged Buzzard 



TABLE IV. 



ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD 



Harriers. 



Of the Harriers, I have only a few skins, and even in these few 

 the dissection notes are often incomplete or wanting altogether. 



A. The Marsh Harrier {Circus eeniginosus, Linn). 



A hundred years ago the Marsh Harrier was a common bird 

 all over the fen countries ; to-day it is by far the rarest of the three 

 British Harriers. While human agency may be responsible in some 

 measure for their disappearance, the main factor has undoubtedly 

 been the drainage and reclamation of the great fen lands, depriving 

 the bird of suitable haunts. Even in Norfolk, where the Broad 

 district satisfies its needs to some extent, the Marsh Harrier is very 

 seldom met with now. In over thirty-five years of collecting in 

 Suffolk, but one specimen has come into my hands. 



