70 RAPTORES. CIRCUS. HARRIER. 



General Bill bluish-black. Cere wax-yellow, almost hidden by the 



tion. nP * projecting bristles at the base of the bill. Irides kingV 



Malebird. yellow. Head, neck, upper part of the breast, back, 



scapulars, and wing-coverts, bluish-grey, passing into 



pearl- grey. The rump white. Quills black. Breast, 



belly, under wing and tail-coverts, pure white, without 



any spots or streaks, as in the Ash-coloured Harrier. 



Middle tail-feathers grey ; the outer ones having their 



inner webs white, barred with blackish-grey. Legs and 



toes lemon-yellow. 



Fig. 2. The female. 



Female. The space surrounding the orbits of the eyes white. Crown 

 of the head and ear-coverts umber-brown. The ruff 

 composed of stiff white feathers, with brown shafts. 

 Upper parts umber-brown, more or less varied with yel- 

 lowish or reddish-brown. Quills dusky, barred under- 

 neath with white. Breast, belly and thighs yellowish- 

 white, with long streaks of deep orange-brown. Rump 

 white. Tail barred with clove and umber-brown. Legs 

 yellow. 



ASH-COLOURED HARRIER. 



CIRCUS CINERACEUS, Shaw. 

 PLATE XI. 



Circus cineraceus, Shaw's ZodL 13. 41. sp. 3. 



Buteo cineraceus, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 55. No. 26. 



Falco cineraceus, Mont. Ornith. Diet Id. SuppL Trans. Lin. Soc. 9. 



p. 188. 



Busard Montagu, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 1. p. 86. 

 Die Halbweihe, Naum Vog. 4. p. 180. t 21. p. 33. 

 Ash-coloured Falcon, Montagu, Ornith. Diet. Id. Suppl. 



The British Fauna is indebted to the persevering researches 

 and acute discrimination of our countryman MONTAGU for 



