BIEDS OF EGYPT. 183 



The description is taken from a specimen I shot at Benisouef. 

 The female is so similar to that of C. pallidus, that the one 

 description will answer for both species. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 33. 



167. Circus PALLIDUS, Sykes. Pale-chested Harrier. ~J^£*<(PLiA,A^\ 



This species is resident in Egypt and Nubia throughout the 3 /rtAJL/? 

 year, where it may often be seen in small parties frequenting ' 

 the rows of sont trees which are not uncommon in the 

 neighbourhood of villages, and sometimes in company with 

 C. ci/aneus. The immature bird assumes a plumage which 

 has caused it occasionally to be mistaken for C. cineraceus. 



Male. — Similar to C. ci/aneus, except that the upper tail- 

 coverts are white, barred with grey. 



Female. — Forehead and eyebrow buff; feathers under the 

 eye white ; ear-coverts brown ; nape mottled with white, 

 remainder of the upper plumage brown, all the feathers edged 

 with pale brown ; upper tail-coverts white, barred with brown ; 

 inner web of the primaries marked with buff and barred with 

 brown ; tail hghtest towards the outer feathers, and barred 

 with dark brown ; under plumage buff, with the centre of 

 most of the feathers rufous-brown ; cere and legs yellow ; "^ 



beak horn-blue ; irides brown. 



Entire length 20 inches; culmen 1*3; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 14-7 ; tarsus 2-8. 



Immature bird. — Upper plumage similar to that of the 

 adult female, except the upper tail-coverts, which are pure 

 white ; underneath it is of a uniform pale ferruginous- 

 brown. 



