MARSU-HARKIEI 



ACCIPITRES. 



Circus ^eruginosus (Linna3us*). 

 THE MAKSH-HARRIER. 

 Circus (eruginosiis. 



Circus, Lacepklef. — Beak siiuill, bending from the liase, conipresseil .ind 

 elevated ; cutting edge of the ujjper mandible with a slight festoon. Cere large. 

 Nostrils oval, and partly concealed by the hairs radiating from the lores. Lower 

 part of the head surrounded by a ruff of small thick-set feathers. Wings long; 

 the first feather very short, the third and fourth the longest. Tail long. Tarsi 

 long, slender, and naked ; toes rather short, and not very unequal ; claw.s slightly 

 curved, and very sharj). 



* Fdlco a'riiyinoaus, Linnteus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 130 (17(J<J). 

 t Memoires de I'lnstitut, iii. i). SOfi (1800-1801). 



