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No. 52. Circus Cineraceus.* Mowntacue. 
MontaGcue’s Harrier. 
I cannot say that I myself believe that this species breeds in 
India, but my collector, Mr. A. G. R. Theobald, who sent me 
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| (Four males and three females measured and weighed.) 
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The third primary is the longest. The first is from three to four inches 
shorter, the second from 0°6 to 0°9, and the fourth from 0°7 to 1 shorter. 
Exterior tail feathers from 0°4 to 1 shorter than the central ones, 
. Description. Legs and feet yellow, claws black. rides, Bright yellow 
in the adult, sometimes brownish yellow in the female, almost white in one 
young one examined. Bild black, dusky in the young. Cere, greenish 
yellow, yellower in the young. 
Prumace. Adult male. The whole head, chin, throat, neck all round, 
breast, back, scapulars, wings (except the first seven primaries which are 
blackish) and central tail feathers, gray of different shades. The neck, cheeks 
and ear coverts, bluish; crown of the head, and occiput (below which there 
| is a white mottled nape patch owing to the white bases of the feathers show- 
| ing through) here and there tinged with rufous brown ; the scapulars infuscated 
and brownish; the back, darker and more ashy, and the wings and centre 
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tail feathers more silvery. The secondaries havea broad, blackish, transverse 
band, across both webs, forming a conspicuous wing band (not unlike that of 
the common pigeon, C, Intermedia) and with traces of another, or, in some 
specimens, two other bands on the inner webs. The central tail feathers 
| unbarred, the laterals with four, very broad, transverse, dark bars on the inner 
| webs, and ¢races of the same on the outer webs of some of the feathers. 
The grey fading, as the feathers recede from the central ones, to pure white 
