RAPTORES. CIRCUS. 



HARRIER. 



MARSH HARRIER. 



CIRCUS RUFUS, Briss. 

 PLATE IX. 



Syn. of 

 Adult. 



You 



oung. 



Circus osruginosus, Shaw's Zool. 13. 41. 

 Buteo aeruginosus, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 55. 25. 



Falco rufus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 25. 51 Gmel Syst I. p. 266. 77. 



Circus rufus, Briss. Ornith. v. 1. p. 404. 



Circus palustris, Briss. 1. p. 401. 



La Harpaye, Buff. Ois. v- 1. p. 217 Id. PL Enl. 460. 



Busard Harpaye, ou de Marais, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 1. 69. 2d ed- 



Brand weihe, Bechst. Tasschenb. Deut. p. 24. sp. 19. 



Harpy Falcon, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 51. 



Falco aeruginosus, Linn. 1. p. 130 Fauna Suec. No. 66. Gmel. Syst. 



1. p. 26T.Lath. Ind. Ornith. 1. 25. 53 Rail Syn. p. 17. A. 4 



Mutter, No. 69. 



Falco arundinaceus, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 1. p. 681. 19. 



Le Busard de marais, Buff. Ois. 1. p. 218 Id. PL Enl. 424. a yearling- 

 bird 



Sumpfweihe, Meyer, Taschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 43. 



Moor Buzzard, Br. Zool. 1. No. 57. t. 27 Id. fol. p. 67. t. A. 5. Arct. 



Zool. 2. p. 225. ~L.Lath. Syn. 1. p. 53. Id. Suppl. 15 Mont. Ornith. 



Diet. 2 vol Will. (Ang.) p. 75. t. 7 Lewirfs Br. Birds, 1. t. 8. 

 Wale. Syn. 1. t. 8 Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 3 BewicVs Br. Bird, 1. 19. 



PROVINCIAL, Duck Hawk, White-headed Harpy, Moor Buzzard. 



General THE female bird of this species, which is represented on 

 tion. 01 Plate 9, measures twenty-three inches in length, and in 

 Female breadth, with extended wings, four feet five inches. The 

 bill is bluish-black. The cutting edge of the upper mandible 

 has a very slight festoon. Cere lemon-yellow. Nostrils 

 covered with the upturned bristles of the front part of the 

 lores. Irides blackish-brown. Crown of the head, throat, 

 and cheeks, straw-yellow, streaked with brown. Behind the 

 ear-coverts, and surrounding the neck, is a ruff of stiffish 

 feathers. Upon the ridge of the wing, a patch of straw- 

 yellow. The rest of the body of dark umber-brown, passing 

 upon the belly into reddish-brown. Legs long, the tarsi 

 slender, and, together with the toes, yellow. Claws black. 

 Male bird. The male, taken at the same time, is rather inferior in size, 

 and of an uniform umber-brown colour, with the exception 



