318 CIRCUS CINERACEUS. 



in Devonshire, in August 1803, altered in arrange- 

 ment. Bill black, the base and cere greenish ; irides 

 and edges of eyelids bright yellow ; feet orange-yellow ; 

 claws black. The head, the neck all round, the back 

 and scapulars, cinereous brown, the latter cinereous at 

 their base, with the tips brown; the smaller wing- 

 coverts like the scapulars, the larger also cinereous 

 brown ; the first eight primaries dusky black, the last 

 with a dash of cinereous ; secondary quills cinereous 

 brown above, pale beneath, with three remarkable dusky 

 bars, transversely placed, and nearly in parallel lines, 

 each half an inch in breadth, one only, however, being 

 visible on the upper side of the wing, and about two 

 inches from the tips. The first row of under wing- 

 coverts is white, with a large dusky bar across the 

 middle ; the rest are bright bay, more or less spotted, 

 barred, or margined with white. The lower parts, in- 

 cluding the tail-coverts and thighs, are white, with a 

 broad streak of bright bay down the shaft of each fea- 

 ther ; the axillar feathers with broad alternate bars of 

 bay and white. The tail is slightly cuneate, the two 

 middle feathers dusky brown, the rest dark ash-colour, 

 palest on the two or three outer feathers, which have 

 their inner webs approaching to white ; all, except the 

 two middle feathers, have five equidistant bars on the 

 inner webs, taking in the shaft ; these bars on the two 

 outer feathers are bay, the rest more or less dusky, 

 with a ferruginous tinge on those at the base. 



Length 18 inches; extent of wings 441; wing from 

 flexure 13 J ; tail 9 J. 



Female — The adult female, according to Temminck, 



