368 FALCONID^ CIRCUS 



There is preserved iti the South Aft•ic^n Mug3um an example 

 of Circus maillardi labelled as having been procured from Kurumin 

 in Beahuanaland ; this species is con3id3red to be confined to 

 Madagascar and the neighbouring islands ; should no mistake have 

 occurred in the labelling, the species must be included in the South 

 African fauna. 



Key of the Species. 



A. The filth primary plam, not emarginated. 



<i. The second primary emarginated about an 



inch beyond the primary coverts ; smaller 



tarsus under 2'5 C. cinornceus, t[i. 368, 



h. The second primary emarginated at the 



level of the tips of the primary-coverts ; 



larger tarsus over 2-5 C. macrunts, p. 370, 



B. Tlie fifth primary emarginated like the others. 



n. General colour including the thighs black. C. mnuviis, p. 372. 

 h. General colour brown, the thighs rufous ... 



a^. Tail banded C. ranivorus, p. 374. 



h\ Tail uniform grey C. a em ginostis, i). 314. 



cK Tail uniform daik brown C. ranivorus ct C. acru- 



(jino8Us, juv. p. 374. 



549. Circus cineraceus. Montagu's Harrier. 



Falco cineraceus, Montagu, Orn. Diet, i, p. K. 2 (1802). 



Circus cinerascens, Laijard, B. S. Afr. p. 34 (1867). 



Circus cinerarius, Gurncij in Amlcrssov^s B. Damaralancl, p. 33 (1872). 



Circus pygargus {ncc Linn.) Sliarpc, Cat. B. M. i, p. 64 (1874) ; id. ed. 



LayanVs B. S. Afr. pp. 12, 795 (1875-84) ; Giirney, Ibis, 1875, p. 



222; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 195 [Lydenburg dist.j ; Shelley, Ibis, 



1882, p. 237 [Harts river]; Butler, Feilden, and Beid, ZooJoyist, 



1882, p. 168 ; Bendall, Ibis, 1896, p. 116 [Barberton] ; Shelley, B. 



Afr. i, p. 153 (1896) ; Beichenow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 534 (1901). 

 Circus cineraceus, A^jres, Ibis, 1877, p. 339, 1878, p. 283, 1880, p. 259 



[Potchef stroom] ; Symonds, Ibis, 1887, p. 325 [Kroonstad] ; Marshall, 



Ibis, 1900, p. 255 [Mashonaland]. 



Description. Adult male. — Above, bluish-grey, the wing-coverts 

 a little darker ; primary coverts silver-grey, outer primaries black 

 throughout, inner _pnes slightly washed with grey at the tips and 

 along the inner webfe, secondaries with a black bar most conspicuous 

 below ; tail-feathers like the back, all but the two centre ones with, 

 or with traces only, of five dark bars ; below, a paler bluish-grey, 

 abdomen, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts white faintly streaked 



