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nape, upper back, scapulars, and wings (except in some specimens 

 some of the median-coverts) nearly uniform umber-brown, but 

 the quills with a trace of darker banding, most of the median 

 wing-coverts in some specimens so broadly edged with pale ferru- 

 ginous or buff as to show but little of the brown, these edgings 

 entirely wanting in others ; the winglet, greater-coverts, secon- 

 daries, and most of the primaries very narrowly paler tipped ; 

 feathers of the lower back and rump the same brown as the rest 

 of the upper parts, but each feather distinctly tipped with buff; 

 the upper tail-coverts often pure white, one or two of them only 

 with an ill-defined brown patch ; in other cases marked as in 

 adult female ; two centre tail-feathers dark umber-brown, with 

 four bars of lighter greyish-brown ; the next four feathers the 

 same dark-brown, but tipped and barred with ferruginous or buff, 

 which is brighter and more extensive, as the feathers recede from 

 the centre ; exterior tail-feather almost entirely rufous-buff with 

 two irregular, dark-brown bars, and a trace of a third ; patch 

 from the lower mandible, over the cheeks, and embracing the 

 ear-coverts rich dark umber-brown ; round this posteriorly, the 

 ruff uniform pale rufous-buff, except just where it separates the 

 white eye-streak from the white nape-patch, where the feathers 

 are mingled with dark brown ; sides of the neck, below the ruff, 

 which is thus clearly defined, dark umber-brown ; chin whitish, with 

 black bristles at the tip ; whole lower parts of the body, including 

 lower tail-coverts, uniform rufous fawn or pale ferruginous ; 

 the lining of the wing the same, but paler, and the largest 

 of the lower wing-coverts mottled with brown ; the lower surface 

 of the quills greyish-brown ; the primaries very distinctly-barred 

 and with more or less white replacing the brown ; the first three 

 primaries conspicuously emarginate on the inner webs, and the 

 third and fourth on their outer > webs ; lower surface of the tail 

 exterior feathers nearly uniform pale fawn, with only an indistinct 

 trace of three ill-defined bars ; the four next feathers umber- 

 brown, with fulvous-white tips, and two well marked, fulvous- 

 white, broad bars ; the two centre feathers with scarcely a trace 

 of paler tipping, and with three narrower greyish bars. 



The Pale Harrier is a very common cold weather visitant to 

 all parts of the district ; it arrives in October, and leaves about 

 the end of March, and does not therefore breed anywhere within 

 our limits. 



Circus cineraceus, Mont. 



52. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 97 ; Butler, Deccan ; Stray 

 Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 374 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of 

 Sind, p 88 ; Circus pygargus, Lin. ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 

 India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 57 ; Hume's Scrap Book, p. 303. 



MONTAGUE'S HARRIER. 



c?. Length, 16'5 to 17 7 ; expanse, 40 to 43'5 ; wing, 14'5 to 15'3 ; 

 tail, 9'3 to 10-2; tarsus, 217 to 2'35 ; bill from gape, 1 to 112. 



