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nape, upper back, scapulars, and wings (except in some specimens 
some of the median-coverts) nearly uniform umber-brown, but 
the quills with a trace of darker banding, most of the median 
wing-coverts in some specimens so broadly edged with pale ferru- 
ginous or buff as to show but little of the brown, these edgings 
entirely wanting in others; the winglet, greater-coverts, secon- 
daries, and most of the primaries very narrowly paler tipped; 
feathers of the lower back and rump the same brown as the rest 
_of the upper parts, but each feather distinctly tipped with buff; 
the upper tail-coverts often pure white, one or two of them only 
with an ill-defined brown patch; in other cases marked as in 
adult female; two centre tail-feathers dark umber-brown, with 
four bars of lighter greyish-brown ; the next four feathers the 
same dark-brown, but tipped and barred with ferruginous or buff, 
which is brighter and more extensive, as the feathers recede from 
the centre; exterior tail-feather almost entirely rufous-buff with 
two irregular, dark-brown bars, and a trace of a third; patch 
from the lower mandible, over the cheeks, and embracing the 
ear-coverts rich dark umber-brown; round this posteriorly, the 
ruff uniform pale rufous-buff, except just where it separates the 
white eye-streak from the white nape-patch, where the feathers 
are mingled with dark brown; sides of the neck, below the ruff, 
which is thus clearly defined, dark umber-brown ; chin whitish, with 
black bristles at the tip ; whole lower parts of the body, including 
lower tail-coverts, uniform rufous fawn or pale ferruginous ; 
the lining of the wing the same, but paler, and the largest 
of the lower wing-coverts mottled with brown ; the lower surface 
of the quills greyish-brown; the primaries very distinctly-barred 
and with more or less white replacing the brown; the first three 
primaries conspicuously emarginate on the inner webs, and the 
third and fourth on their outer webs; lower surface of the tail 
exterior feathers nearly uniform pale fawn, with only an indistinct 
trace of three ill-defined bars; the four next feathers umber- 
brown, with fulvous-white tips, and two well marked, fulvous- 
white, broad bars; the two centre feathers with scarcely a trace 
of paler tipping, and with three narrower greyish bars. 
The Pale Harrier is a very common cold weather visitant to 
all parts of the district ; it arrives in October, and leaves about 
the end of March, and does not therefore breed anywhere within 
our limits. 
Circus cineraceus, Joné. 
52.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 97 ; Butler, Deccan ; Stray 
Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 374; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of 
Sind, p. 88 ; Circus pygargus, Lin. ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 
India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 57 ; Hume’s Scrap Book, p. 303. 
Monvacuer’s Harrier. 
3. Length, 16°5 to 17'7 ; expanse, 40 to 43°5 ; wing, 14°5 to 153 ; 
tail, 93 to 102; tarsus, 2°17 to 2°35; bill from gape, 1 to 1°12, 
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