ASH-COLOURED HARRIER, 



Circus cineraceus. SELBY. 

 PLATE XXIII. 



Ash-coloured Falcon, Falco cineraceus, Mont. Trans. 



Linn. Soc. ix. p. 188. Ornith. Diet Ash-coloured 



Harrier, Circus cineraceus, Selby, Sfc. 



WE are indebted to the assiduity of the late 

 Colonel Montague for the discovery of this species 

 to the British Fauna. Closely allied to the pre- 

 ceding, it had remained confounded with it, and 

 although the distinctions are strongly marked, 

 unless to an observer such as we have mentioned, 

 they would be very easily overlooked. It is a 

 species of much greater rarity than the Common 

 Harrier, and, so far as we know, has not yet 

 occurred in Scotland. Neither has it yet been 

 ascertained to be a native of Ireland. Mr Selby 

 mentions its occurrence on the Northumbrian 

 muirs, where it breeds, but this is the most 

 northern locality which we have seen noticed. 

 Montague records its being taken and breeding 

 in Devonshire, and we have occasional mention 

 of its occurrence in some other of the English 

 Bounties, particularly in the south, though its 



