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CIRCUS CINERACEUS. MONTAGUES HARRIER. 



ASII-COLOURED HARRIER. ASH-COLOURED FALCON. 



Ash-coloured Falcon. Falco citieraceus. Mont. Orn. Diet. 

 Busard Montagu. Falco cineraceus. Temm. Man. d'Orn. 

 Ash-coloured Harrier. Circus cineraceus. Selb. Tllustr. I. 70. 

 Buteo cineraceus. Ash-coloured Harrier. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 90. 



The icings extending a little beyond the tail ; the third quill 

 much longer than the fourth. Male with the plumage light bluish- 

 grey^ the outer primaries black toward the end, the tail-coverts 

 white. Female umber-brou'u above, pale reddish-yellow, with 

 longitudinal bright red streaks beneath, tall-coverts white. Young 

 similar to the female, but having the lower parts of a uniform 

 bright red. 



Male. — This species, which was first clearly distinguished 

 from the Common Harrier, and accurately described, by Mon- 

 tagu, is somewhat smaller and more slender than that species. 

 The head is rather small, and ovate ; the bill small and com- 

 pressed ; the upper mandible with its dorsal line sloping and 

 somewhat convex on the cere, its sides slightly convex toward 

 the end, its edges with a broad festoon, its tip slender and very 



