16 BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 



Professor Ansted includes the Boughlegged Buz- 

 zard in his list, but only marks it as occurring in 

 Guernsey. There is no specimen at present in the 

 Museum. 



12. MARSH HARRIER. Circus ceruginosus, Linngeus. 

 French, "Busard des Marais." This seems to be 

 the least common of the Harriers in the Channel 

 Islands, though it does occur occasionally, and per- 

 haps more frequently than is generally supposed. 



There are two specimens in the Museum in 

 Guernsey both in immature plumage ; in that 

 state, in fact, in which this bird most commonly 

 occurs, and in which it is the Bald Buzzard of 

 Bewick. 



Miss C. B. Carey records one in the November 

 number of the ' Zoologist ' for 1874 in the following 

 words : " In the May of this year an adult male 

 Marsh Harrier was found in Herm. Unfortunately 

 it got into the hands of some person who, I believe, 

 kept it too long before bringing it over to be pre- 

 served, so that all that remains of it is the head." 

 I had no opportunity of examining this bird myself, 

 not even the head, but I am disposed to doubt its 

 being fully adult, as it seems to me much more 

 probable that it was much in the same state as 

 those in the Museum, in which state it is much 

 more common than in the fully adult plumage. 

 Miss Carey seems only to have seen the head her- 



