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It is very pale greenish white, streaked and mottled with yellowish 

 brown, except at the smaller end, which is covered by a large cap 

 of deep reddish brown, marked with blotches of a blackish colour. 

 The specimen measures 2-05 by 1'56. 



1. Madagascar. Rev. W. Deans Cowan [P.]. 



Genus CIRCUS, Lacep. 



The eggs of the Harriers are white or bluish white, generally 

 plain, but sometimes marked. They are of a broad oval or elliptical 

 shape, and occasionally they are spheroidal. They have usually a 

 small amount of gloss. 



Circus cyaneus (Linn.). 



Falco eyaneut, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. tab. xliv. fig. 1 a, b (1845-54). 

 Strigiceps cyaneus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 49. fig. 2 (1855-63). 

 Circus cvaneus, Hewitson, Et/gs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 47, pi. xvi. fig. ii 



(1856) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 52 (1874) ; Dresser, Birds 



Eur. v. p. 431 (1879) ; Seebohm, Brit, Birds, i. p. 128, pi. 6 (1883) ; 



id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 17, pi. 5. fig. 2 (1890) ; Sharpe, Handel 



i. p. 245 (1899). 



The eggs of the Hen-Harrier appear to be always of a plain 

 bluish-white colour. They measure from 1*55 to 2-0 in length, 

 and from T25 to 1'6 in breadth. 



5. Orphir, Orkney Islands, 18th May Seebohm Coll. 



(Hargitt Coll.}. 



5. Orphir, 27th May (Hargitt Coll.). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Orphir, 27th May (Hargitt Coll.). Seebohm Coll. 



4. Orkney Islands (Hargitt Coll). Stebohm Coll. 



3. Scotland (H. Saunders). Seebohm Coll. 



4. Wick. Caithness. Crowley Bequest. 

 1. Islay Island, W. Scotland. Seebohm Coll. 



1. Argyllshire (E. Newton). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. Northumberland (H. Saunders). Seebohru Coll. 



2. Blackwater, Dorset, 24th May. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Wales (H. Saunders). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Holland (J. Baker). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Valkenswaard, Holland, 12th May Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(J. B.). 



2. Dorpat, Baltic Provinces (Russoiv). Seebohm Coll. 

 1. Kiver Volga. Seebohm Coll. 



Circus hudsonius (Linn.). 



Circus hudsonicus, Brewer, N. Amer. Ool. pt. i. p. 42, pi. iii. figs. 31, 32, 



& 36 (1856) j Ross, Nat. Hist. Rev. 1862, p. 277. 

 Circus cyaneus, var. hudsonius, Baird, Brewer fy Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, 



iii. p. 214 (1874). 

 Circus hudsonius, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 55 (1874) ; MacFarlane, 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 432 (1891); Bendire, Life- Hist. 



N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 183, pi. v. figs. 8-10 (1892) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. 



i. p. 24o (1899) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 3 (1899). 



