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RAPTORES. CIRCUS. 



Harrier. 



MARSH HARRIER. 



Circus rufus, Briss. 



PLATE IX. 



Syn. of 

 Aiiiilt. 



Syn. of 

 Ifoung. 



''Circus reruginosus, Shaw''s Zool. 13. 41. 



Buteo peruginosus, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 55. 25. 



Falco rufus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 25. 51 — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 26C. 77- 



Circus rufus, Briss. Ornith. v. 1. p. 404. 

 J Circus palustris, Briss. 1. p. 401. 



La Harpaye, Buff. Ois. v. 1. p. 217 — Id. PI. Enl. 4G0. 



Busard Harpaye, ou de Marais, Temm. Man, d'Ornith. 1. 69. 2d ed- 



Brandvveihe, Bechst. Tasschenb. Deut. p. 24. sp. 19. 

 < Harpy Falcon, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 51. 



/Falco seruginosus, Linn. 1. p. 1.30. — Fauna Suec. No. C6. — Gmel. Syst. 



1. p. 26T. —Laih. Ind. Ornith. 1. 25. 53 — Haii Syn. p. 17. A. 4. — 



Muller, No. 69. 

 Falco arundinaceus, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 1. p. 681. 19. 

 Le Busard de marais, Buff. Ois. 1. p. 218 — Id. PI. Enl. 424. a yearling 

 <( bird 



Sumpfweihe, Meyer, Taschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 43. 



Moor Buzzard, Br. Zool. 1. No. 57. t. 27 — Id. fol. p. 67- t. A. 5 — Arct. 



Zool. 2. p. 225. 'L.—Lath. Syn. 1. p. 53.— M Suppl. 15 — Motit. Ornith. 



Diet. 2 vol. — Will. (Ang.) p. 75. t. 7 — Lewin's Br. Birds, 1. t. 8.— 



Wale. Syn. 1. t. 8 Pult. Cat. Dorset- p. 3 — Bewick's Br. Bird, 1. 19- 



Provincial, — Duck Hawk, Wliite-headed Harpy, Moor Buzzard. 



The female bird of this species, which is represented on 

 Plate 9, measures twenty-three inches in length, and in 

 breadth, with extended wings, four feet five inches. The 

 bill is bluish-black. The cutting edge of the upper mandible 

 has a very slight festoon. Cere lemon-yellow. Nostrils 

 covered with the upturned bristles of the front part of the 

 lores. Irides blackish-brown. Crown of the head, throat, 

 and cheeks, straw-yellow, streaked with brown. Behind the 

 ear-coverts, and surrounding the neck, is a ruff of stiffish 

 feathers. Upon the ridge of the wing, a patch of straw- 

 yellow. The rest of the body of dark umber-brown, passing 

 tipon the belly into reddish-brown. Legs long, the tarsi 

 slender, and, together with the toes, yellow. Claws black. 

 Male bird. The male, taken at the same time, is rather inferior in size, 

 and of an uniform umber-brown colour, with the exception 



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General 

 descrip- 

 tion. 

 Female 

 bird. 



