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Rare. We both observed this species on the Samana 

 during the spring migration. I also saw one near Lachi 

 in March. 



[1235.] Circus cyaneus. The H en-Harrier. 

 Marshall, J. B. N. H. S. xv. p. 352 (occurs at Quetta in 

 spring) ; Ward, op. cit. xvii. p. 729 (common in winter). 

 Fairly common on passage in spring and autumn. 



[1237,] Circus ^RUGiNosus. The Marsh-Harrier. 



Marshall, J. B. N. H. S. xv. p. 352 (fairly common in 

 winter); Ward, op. cit. xvii. p. 729 (very plentiful ; possibly 

 breeds in Kashmir). 



Common about reed-beds and irrigated crops from 

 September till the middle of May, especially in spring and 

 autumn. Dresser, in his ' Manual of Palaearctic Birds ' 

 (p. 504), writing of this species, says : " It is doubtful if it 

 dares even to attack a rat.'" I once disturbed a bird feasting 

 on a freshly-killed adult Nesokia hardwickii (a particularly 

 fierce species of field-rat), which I think must have been 

 killed by the bird. I believe that a pair nested on the grass- 

 farm at Kohat in the summer of 1906. They were there 

 up to the 14th of June, when I left for the Kurram Valley. 

 On my return in August I found an immature bird in the 

 same spot. 



[1239.] BuTEo FEROX. The Long-legged Buzzard. 



Marshall, J. B. N. H. S. xv. p. 352 (common round 

 Quetta in winter, chiefly the dark form; probably breeds 

 close by). 



A winter visitor and very common from October till 

 April. I have shot both the light and the dark forms^ but 

 the former is much the commoner. 



[1241.] BuTEo DESERToRUM. The Common Buzzard. 



Cumming, J. B. N. H. S. xvi. p. 691 (Seistan : one shot 

 in February). 



757. ? . Kohat, 1760 ft., 28th March. 



A winter visitor, but by no means as common as the last 

 species. 



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