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and all barred across with darker brown ; under surface of wing 

 white, the dark bars showing very distinctly ; lower back and rump 

 brown, the feathers distinctly tipped with pale rufous ; upper tail- 

 coverts pure white ; tail ashy grey, tipped with fulvous and crossed 

 with five blackish bands, the subterminal one much the broadest, 

 the ashy grey interspaces inclining to or replaced by pale tawny on 

 the outer feathers ; lores as well as a distinct eyebrow and ear- 

 coverts huffy white ; sides of face and of neck, as well as the facial 

 ruff, rufous buff streaked with dark brown ; under surface of body 

 creamy buff, with central pointed marks of rufous brown to the 

 feathers, more distinct on the fore neck and under wing- and tail- 

 coverts ; flank-feathers and axiUaries rufous brown, with large 

 rounded spots of creamy buft' on both webs ; under wing-coverts 

 and thighs creamy buff, with irregular central streaks of rufous 

 brown occupying the major part of the greater under wing-coverts. 

 Total length 23 inches, wing 15%5, tail 11, tarsus 3-1. 



Hab. Dauria southwards through Eastern China to the Malayan 

 peninsula and the Philippines. 



a. (S ad. sk. PhiUppine Islands. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C], 



Type of species. 

 Zoological Societv. 

 J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 

 J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 

 Dr. Dybowski [C.]. 



5. Circus maillardi. 



Ch'cus melanoleucus, Hartl. Faun, Madag. p. 21 (1861). 



Circus maillardi, Verr. in Maill. Vile de la Reun. ii. p. 12 (1863) ; 



Scl. Ibis, 1863, p. 163, pi. 4, et 1864, p. 298; Schl. <5- Poll. Faun. 



Madaq. Ois. p. 40 (1868) ; Gitmet/, Ibis, 1869, p. 450 ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 36 (1869) ; Schl. Mtis. P.-B. Eevtte Accipitr. p. 51 



(1873). 



Young. Above deep chocolate-brown, with pale rufous edges to 

 the feathers of the crown and wing-coverts ; nape and hind neck 

 rufous buff, streaked with dark brown ; sides of face and of neck, 

 as well as entire underparts, dark brown, with rufous margins to 

 the feathers, the chin paler and more fulvous and streaked with 

 dark brown ; thighs and under tail-coverts deep rufous, the latter 

 brown in the centre ; upper tail-coverts rufous, the outer ones more 

 inclining to fulvous, with dark brown centres ; tail chocolate-brown, 

 inclining to blackish towards the tip, which is rufous ochre ; quills 

 black, the secondaries tipped with ashy brown, lighter and more 

 ashy below, the primaries whitish at immediate base. Total length 

 20 inches, wing 13-9, tarsus 3-05. {Mus. Lugd.) 



Adult. Above black, the nape and hind neck streaked with white ; 

 the least wing-coverts running along the bend of wing margined 

 with white, the outer median ones with grey ; the greater coverts 

 clear ashy grey, with a large subterminal black mark, giving the 

 appearance of an irregular bar ; primaries black ; secondaries ashy 

 grey, tipped with white, and subterminally marked with black, the 



