10. ciKcus. 73 



distinct remains of blackish, forming on some of the secondaries a 

 distinct subterminal spot ; upper tail-coverts white, on some of them 

 a slight spot of pale rufous ; tail ashy grey, tipped -with white ; the 

 central feathers entirely grey, the exterior ones gradually becoming 

 more and more tawnj- mfous near the base, with a few dark brown 

 mottlings ; frontal and superciliary feathers dull whitish, not very 

 distinct ; sides of face and of neck dull rufous brown, streaked with 

 dark brown ; facial ruff rufous buff, streaked with blackish, and 

 mottled with white ; under surface of body creamy white, with di- 

 stinct streaks of pale rufous brown along the centre of the feathers, 

 broader on the imder wing-coverts, and very narrow on the thighs 

 and under tail-coverts ; culmen pale greenish yellow ; bill dark 

 brown, bluish at base ; tarsi greenish white ; feet yellowish buff ; 

 iiis yellow. Total length 21-o inches, culmen 1-5, wing 16-25, 

 tail 9-8, tarsus 3-9. 



Hub. Southern and Eastern Australia, as high as 20° X. lat. ; New 

 Zealand, New Caledonia*, and the Fiji Islands. 



Sir D. Cooper, Bart. [P.]. 

 Sir G. Grev [P.l. 

 Sir G. Grey [P.]. 

 Eai-1 of Derby [P.]. 

 J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 

 J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 

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

 Antarctic Expedition. 

 Sir George Grey [P.]. 

 Sir Everard Home, Bart. 

 Sir Everard Home, Bart. 

 Su' Everard Home, Bart. 

 Pm'chased. 





I have not had an opportunity of examining the foUowing species : — 



15. Circus inacrosceUs. 



Circus macrosceles, A. Kewtmi, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 180 ; U. NeTct. His, 

 1863, p. 337 ; Gurnet/, Ibis, 1869, p. 451 ; Gra>/, Hand-l. B. i. 

 p. 36 (1869). 



Immature male. Of the general appearance of Circus cyaneus, but 

 of a much larger size. In colour exactly resembling examples of 

 Circus cyaneus of the same age, but having the central stripes to the 

 feathers of the belly longer, the tail-coverts broader, and the cross 

 bars of the wings more narrow and more brightly marked ; cere 

 yellow; bill hom-colour, black at tip; feet yellow, claws black; 

 iris yellow {Newton). Total length 22-75 inches, culmen 2, wing 

 a little over 15, tail 10, tarsus 4, middle toe with claw 2-75. 



Hab. Madagascar. 



Obs. Professor Schlcgel, in his lately pubhshed ' Revue ' (p. 50), 

 doubtfully refers this bird to C. assimilis of Australia. The latter is 

 the only species which approaches it in length of tarsus ; but at the 



The Harrier from this locality, the true C. wolfi, may turn out to be distinct. 



