g BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
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dirty white; tail-coverts white; tail brown, with 
three bars of rusty, two centre feathers greyish ash, 
in the place of the rusty; tips of all the feathers 
rusty; throat brown, with white streaks; breast, 
belly and elongated feathers on the thighs light yel- 
lowish rusty, streaked with light brown, the centre 
of each feather being light brown; under tail-coverts 
yellowish white; primary quills brown, shafts rusty. 
Young males are brown, like the female; they 
begin to change to blue in the second autumn: they 
are also smaller than the female. 
The eges are generally of a bluish white, occa- 
sionally shehtly marked with yellowish brown, which 
agrees with the one in my own collection; in some 
specimens with more distinctly defined spots of light 
brown.* 
Monracu’s Harrier, Circus Montagu. Mon- 
tagu’s Harrier, or the Ashcoloured Harrier (Circus 
cineraceus of many authors), is, as I have before ob- 
served, not so rare in this county as the Hen Har- 
rier: the two species are, however, frequently con- 
founded. The last occurrence of this species that 
came under my own notice was a few years ago, 
when a pair of these birds, together with their nest 
and young, were taken by Mr. Bisset’s keeper at 
Pixton: they were all preserved by Mrs. Turle, and 
are, I believe, stillin Mr. Bisset’s collection. I have 
* See Hewitson. 
