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Circus pygargus. MONTAGU'S HARRIER. 



FalGO pyg-arg-US Linncms, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 89 : 

 England. 



Circus pygargus (Linn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. 1874, 



p. 64. 

 Circus cineraceus (Montagu') B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 93 ; 



Sounders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 319. 



Pygargus -irvyapyof, white -rumped. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Summer Visitor, 

 breeding regularly in East Anglia and occasionally in other 

 parts of England and Wales, from Northumberland south- 

 wards to Devonshire and Cornwall. To Scotland it is 

 a rare visitor. A female shot on the 15th of June, 1882, 

 in the Solway district, was probably nesting. In Ireland 

 about a dozen specimens have been procured, mostly in 

 co. Wicklow. 



General Distribution. Montagu's Harrier breeds in 

 Europe, north-western Asia, and north Africa, from the Gulf 

 of Finland eastwards to south-western Siberia and Turkestan, 

 and from Morocco to Algeria. In winter it visits India, 

 Burma, and Ceylon, also Africa, ranging to Cape Colony, 

 and the Canary Islands. 



Genus BUTEO Lacepede, Tableaux Ois. 1799, p. 4. 

 Type : B. buteo (Linn.). 



Bvteo, a kind of Hawk known to Pliny. Cognate with /3vas, fiva, bubo, 

 bnbtre = io cry like a Bittern, fcucca=the cheek, etc. (Vanisek). 



Buteo buteo. BUZZARD. 



FalGO buteo Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 90 : Savoy. 



Buteo vulgaris Leach ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. 1874, p. 186 ; 

 B. O. 17. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 94 ; Sounders, Manual, 2nd 

 ed. 1899, p. 321. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A. Resident, breeding 

 in the western and central parts of Scotland, and the Inner 



