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BIEDS OF EGYPT. 



plumage more or less shaded with russet-brown, with the 

 centre of the feathers marked with dark brown. 



A Nubian specimen in my collection is entirely of a dark 

 brown colour, with the following exceptions : — Base of the 

 feathers on the head white and narrowly edged with buff; 

 feathers on the shoulders and crop narrowly edged with pale 

 brown ; tail grey, wings washed with the same colour ; cere 

 and legs yellow ; beak horn-blue ; ii'ides pale brownish 

 yellow. 



Entire length 19-5 inches; culmen 1'5; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 15 ; tarsus 3"4. 



Immature plumage. — Brown, with the exception of the 

 head, nape, throat, a patch on the shoulders, and an irregular 

 baud on the chest, which are buff-coloured. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 32. 



166. Circus cyaneus (Linn.). Hen Harrier. 



This species is not nearly so common in Egypt as C. pal- 

 lichis ; but I have found it occasionally in rows of sont trees 

 in Middle Egypt along with that bird. It only remains in 

 the country during the winter months. 



31ale. — Upper plumage pearl-grey, slightly mottled on the 

 nape with white ; primaries black ; iail-coverts pure white ; 

 the outer tail-feathers incline to white, and all except the 

 two centre ones have seven dusky bars on them ; throat, crop, 

 and remainder of the underparts white ; cere, legs, and 

 irides yellow ; beak black. 



Entire length 19 inches; culmen 1'2 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 13"6 ; tarsus 2'7. 



