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gular transverse red brown bars. Winglet, greater primary coverts, and bases 

 of the outer webs of the later primaries grey, with broad transverse brown 

 bars. 



The adult female is larger than the male and has a slatey grey wash on the 

 back. Wing 15*4 ; tail to; tarsus 3 - i3 inches. 



Hab. Mr. Sharpe gives Eastern Asia, eastern side of the Indian Peninsula 

 and Burma, northwards to Mongolia, A moor land and Northern China. It 

 occurs in Ceylon, Nepal, Burma, Assam, and Eastern Bengal generally, 

 (extending westward to Mirzapoor), also almost throughout the Himalayas, 

 from the valley of the Burhampooter to Afghanistan. It has been noted from 

 Bengal, Rajputana, Central India, the Central Provinces, the Concan, Deccan, 

 South India, British Burma, and Nepal. 



Nothing is known of the nidification of this species. Dr. Jerdon however 

 remarks in his appendix, that he has every reason to believe it breeds in 

 Northern India. 



11. CirCUS pygargtlS, Linn. S- N. \. p 48 ; Sharpe^ Cat. Ace. B. M. 

 p. 64. Circus cineraceus, CUT. R?ne. An. i. p. 338; Jerdon, B. of India, i. 

 p. 97, No. 52; Hume, Rough Notes, ii. p. 303; Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 184; 

 Murray, Hdbk. Zool. tyc. Sind ; id. Vert. ZooL Sind, p, 88. MONTAGUE'S 

 HARRIER. 



