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RAPTORES, 



FALCONID^E. 



FALCONIDJZ. 



MONTAGU'S HARRIER. 



Circus Montagui. 



Falco hy emalis, Ash-coloured Falcon, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 243. 



cineraceus, MONT. Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 37. 



Buteo Buzzard, FLEMING, Brit. An. p. 55. 



Circus Harrier, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 70. 



Buteo JENYNS, Brit. Yert. p. 90. 



Circus GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Falco Busard Montagu, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 76. 



ONE of the very few alterations in the names of our 

 British Birds which will be proposed in this work, refers, 

 as seen above, to this Harrier ; and it is hoped that the 

 reasons to be given for adopting this change will be consi- 

 dered even more than sufficient to justify it. 



