52 BUTEONINyE. 



webs, above the emarginations ; all the tail-feathers tipped with 

 pale rufous, most broadly on the external feathers ; the central 

 tail-feathers deep brown, with four broad, transverse, greyish- 

 brown bars, greyer at the bases and broader towards the tips ; 

 the lateral tail-feathers similar in character, but the grey-brown 

 bars change, as the feathers recede from the central ones, to 

 rufous-grey, rufous, and rufous-white ; and the deep brown inter- 

 spaces change similarly to nearly pure cinnamon-rufous ; the 

 upper tail-coverts are absolutely pure white in some, in others with 

 very narrow, rufous-brown, shaft stripes. From the throat, the 

 whole lower parts, including the wing-lining, are pure, pale cinna- 

 mon-rufous ; some of the feathers of the sides of the breast, with 

 linear, dark -brown shaft stripes, and all the feathers with the 

 shafts slightly deeper colored than the webs. 



Montague's Harrier occurs throughout the Deccan, Rajpootana 

 and Sind. I did not meet with it in Guzerat ; it is of course a 

 seasonal visitant only. 



Circus melanoleucus, Forst. 



53. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 98 ; Hume's Scrap Book, 



p. 307. 



THE PIED HARKIER. 



Length, 17 to 18; wing, 14; tail, 8 ; tarsus, 2'9 ; mid-toe and 

 claw, 1*6. 



Bill and cere black ; irides yellow ; legs yellow. 



Whole head, neck, breast, back, upper scapulars, middle wing- 

 coverts and primary quills black ; the greater-coverts and second- 

 aries, and some of the scapulars, beneath the others, pale grey ; 

 the lesser-coverts and shoulders partially white mixed with some 

 grey ; upper tail-coverts mixed white and grey ; beneath from the 

 breast pure white ; tail pure grey, unbarred, paling on the outer 

 feathers. 



The wings reach nearly to the end of the tail. Sexes alike. 



Dr. Jerdon remarks that the Pied Harrier is rare in the 

 Deccan and Central India, but common in Bengal. 



Circus seruginosus, Lin. 



54. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 99 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 



Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 447 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 



IX, p. 374 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 89 ; Swin- 



hoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 58 ; Hume's Scrap 



Book, p. 314. 



THE MARSH HARRIER. 



<?. Length, 19 to 21*7; expanse, 47 to 50; wing, 15'6 to 

 1675 ; tail, 94 to 10 2 ; tarsus, 3'4 to 3'86 ; bill from gape, 1-4 to 

 1-5. 



?. Length, 21 to 24 ; expanse, 50 to 54 ; wing, 16'2 to 171 ; 

 tail, 975 to 10'22 ; tarsus, 3'55 to 3'9 ; bill from gape, T5 to T63. 



