20 BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 



identifying young birds and females, which are 

 sometimes very much alike. In fully adult males 

 the orange markings on the flanks and thighs, and 

 the greyish upper tail-coverts of Montagu's Harrier, 

 distinguish it immediately at a glance from the 

 Hen Harrier, in which those parts are white. 



Montagu's Harrier is not included by Professor 

 Ansted in his list, nor is there a specimen in the 

 Museum. 



15. LONGEARED OWL. Asiootus, Linnaeus. French, 

 "Hibouvulgaire," "Hiboumoyen due." TheLong- 

 eared Owl seems only a very rare and accidental 

 visitant to the Channel Islands. I have never met 

 with it myself, but Mr. Couch records the occurrence 

 of one in the ' Zoologist ' for 1875, p. 4296 : " I 

 have a Longeared Owl, shot at St. Martin's on the 

 9th of November in that year." This is the only 

 occurrence I can be sure of, except that Mr. Couch, 

 about two years afterwards, sent me a skin of a 

 Guernsey-killed Longeared Owl ; but this may have 

 been the bird mentioned above, as he sent me no 

 date with it. 



les Circus exotiques. En C. swainsonii (the Pallid Harrier) 

 et C. cineraceus cette emargination successive se borne a la 

 quatrieme." We have little to do with this distinction, except 

 as between C. cyaneus and C. cineraceus, C. ceruginosus 

 being otherwise sufficiently distinct, and C. swainsonii not 

 coming within our limits. 



