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FALCONIDiE 



CIRCUS 



Dr. Stark in his notes gives the following account of it: "On 

 October 1, at Weston in Natal, I found a nest of this Harrier with 

 three eggs in a vlei of about 20 acres near the Mooi river, and shot 



Fig. 130. —Another nest of Circus ranivorus, with half-fledged young one 

 and the parent bird descending with a rat in her claws. Also from a photograph 

 by Capt. Moore, taken on the Cape Plats in October, 1901. 



the hen bird. The nest was a large one measuring about 20 inches 

 across at the surface of the water, and was in the form of a 

 flattened cone, the top being nine inche above the water, which 



