16. CIRCU8. 



71 



Behar. 



Behar. 



Moorshedabad. 



Davjiling. 



China. 



China. 



Formosa. 



Philippine Islands. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.' . 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.'. 

 Colonel Cobbe tC.]. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P-J. 

 J. R. Reeves, Esq. \\\\ 

 R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.l. 

 Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 

 Major-Gen. Hardwicke [P.]. 

 Purchased. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 J. Rae, Esq. [P.J. 



13. Circus ranivorus. 



Le Grenouillavd, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. i. pi. 23 (1799) ; Sund. Crit. om 

 LemdU. p. 2.5 (18o7). 



Falco ranivorus, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 170 (1800). 



Circus ranivorus, Cin\ Regne An. i. p. 358 (1829) ; Less. Traite, p. 86 

 (1831); Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 32 (1845); StricU. Om. Syn. p. 151 

 (1855) ; Grill, Zoul. Anteckn. p. 48 (1858) ; Gum. Ibis, 1859, p. 242 ; 

 Schl. Mus. P.-B. Cirei, p. 11 (1862); Laxjard, B. S. Afr. p. 35 

 (1867) ; Bocaqe, Jorn. Lish. 1868, p. 47 ; Graij, Hnnd-l. B. i. p. 36 

 (1869) ; Fimdi u. Hartl. Voq. Ostafr. p. 97 (1870) ; Gicmeij in 

 Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 34 (1872). ' 



Circus levaillantii, Smith, S. Afr. Q. Journ. i. p. 387 (1830). 



Falco pygargus, Kaup, T/ticrr. ii. p. 254 (1836). 



Pygargiis ranivorus, Kaup, Classif. 8'dug. u. Vdg. p. 113 (1844). 



Young. Above brown, with a chocolate gloss, the feathers mar- 

 gined with dull rufous, verj' distinct on the least wing-coverts and 

 head ; quills dark brown, tipped with paler brown, the inner webs 

 lighter and mottled with rufous, especially near base ; rump dark 

 brown, the lower feathers tipped with rufous ; the upper tail-coverts 

 entirely rufous, tipped with fulvous ; tail ashy brown, tipped with 

 fulvous, crossed with six bars of dark brown, the interspaces on the 

 outer feathers* more or less inclining to rufous ; sides of face brown, 

 the feathers over and under the eye whitish ; facial ruff dark brown, 

 with very slight streaks of fulvous ; under surface of body chocolate- 

 brown, gradually inclining to deep nifous on the abdomen and thighs, 

 the under wing-coverts rather brighter rufous, the centre of the 

 breast slightly varied with fulvous streaks. 



Adult male. Above brown, the feathers margined on both sides 

 with fulvous, those of the hind neck with white, causing a distinctly 

 streaked appearance ; upper wing-coverts orange-rufous, distinctly 

 spotted on both webs and tipped with white ; greater coverts brown, 

 tipped with white, the outermost externally shaded with ashy grey; 

 primary coverts and quills dull ashy grey, barred with blackish brown, 

 the subterminal bar being the broadest ; the secondaries browner, 

 tipped with white, the cross bars almost imperceptible above, but 

 plainer underneath ; the inner web for the most part white ; rump 

 ashy brown, the feathers tipped with orange-rufous; upper tail- 

 coverts clear orange-rufous, slightly shaded with brownish and tipped 

 with white; tail dull ashy grey, tipped with whitish and crossed 



