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but persecution has driven it away. In 1844, accord- 

 ing to the Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, a pair were shot 

 in May under the cHffs near Dover. In the Zoologist, 

 1853, Mr. James Green writes : " I have a fine old 

 female of Montagu's Harrier that was shot in Wool- 

 wich marshes on August 16 last." 



In the Field, 1870, a note appeared, which was after- 

 wards copied in the Zoologist, 1870, under the heading of 

 Black Montagu's Harrier, as follows : "There is a very 

 fine black male of this species, having a roseate gloss 

 upon its upper parts, in the Canterbury Museum, shot 

 near that city ; and in the Dover Museum I observed 

 another, and was told by the Curator there that he had 

 seen five or six like it in the course of his experience.'"' 

 — J. H. Gurney, jun. The former bird, and a rufous- 

 headed young one, are still in the Canterbury Museum : 

 they formed part of Mr. AV. Oxendon Hammond's 

 collection. 



Morris says that two of Montagu's Harriers " of a 

 uniform dark colour," in the collection of Mr. Chaffey, of 

 Dodington, in Kent, were shot by the Preventive men 

 at Dover. " One of them, at Mr. Chaffey's decease, 

 according to Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., became the property 

 of the Eev. Bower-Scott, of Chudleigh, in Devon " ; this 

 specimen is now in the Exeter Museum. 



Writing to the Zoologist in 1871, from Cobham, in 

 Kent, Lord Chfton states that " during September and 

 October we had several Harriers about, which is also 

 unusual. There was one pair of brown Harriers, very 

 long and slender in shape, which I imagine to have been 

 Montagu's Harrier ; another, a male, in the conspicuous 

 blue and white plumage, looked more like a Hen- 

 Harrier, being rather a stouter bird, i.e., stouter than 



