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Montagu’s Harrier; and C. eruginosus, the Marsh 
Harrier. 
The Hen Harrier, when more abundant than it now 
is, was in ill repute with preservers of game from its 
propensity to destroy partridge’s eggs, and its name of 
Hen Harrier implies that it also occasionally harried 
the good-wife’s poultry yard, in connection with which 
it is worthy of remark, that in the Irish language this 
bird is called “ Pee hah ne gark,” signifying “ the crow 
that kills the hens;” and it is said that in some parts 
of Ireland the poultry are still occasionally the victims 
of its depredations. 
_Both the Hen Harrier and the Montagu Harrier 
frequent the upland moors as well as the marsh 
lands, but the Marsh Harrier, as its name imports, 
almost entirely confines itself to localities which are 
more or less of a marshy character, and especially to 
such as produce large beds of rushes, over which it 
is in the habit of hovering when in search of its 
prey. 
All three of the British Harriers are widely spread 
over Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa; and the 
Montagu’s Harrier also extends its range as far south- 
wards as the colony of the Cape of Good Hope. 
The remainder of the birds of prey are comprised 
in the large family of Strigidz or Owls, which, from 
the nocturnal or crepuscular habits of most members 
of the group, are styled nocturnal Raptores, in con- 
tradistinction to the previously mentioned groups, 
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