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young. Montagues Harrier (C. cineraceus) is not unlike, and only an 

 old hand could pretend to distinguish these birds on the wing. The 

 latter is, on the whole, darker. The hens of both are brown-backed, 

 and there are very gradual and confusing changes of plumage accord- 

 ing to age. The Hen-Harrier and Pied Harrier are not Bombay 

 birds ; but we have the Marsh Harrier, C. ceruglnosuSf a larger bird 

 than our two above noted, and of generally brown plumage ; a great 

 thief of wounded teal, and sometimes distinguishable in flight, by 

 rising higher from the ground than they do. 



Circus spilojiotus, a very similar bird, does not visit us, and no 

 Harrier breeds in our province. 



The Buzzard-Eagles {Butastur) form a small genus of small birds 

 (for eagles) ; here well separated from Buzzards, to which they are not 

 really close akin. We have B. teesa, a bird of the open country, of 

 no great interest, unless as laying eggs white, or nearly so. 



The next genus, Haliaetus, contains the " Earns," a name not to be 

 willingly let die, because it is good old English and begs no question. 

 They are also called Sea Eagles and Fishing Eagles, but some do 

 not go to sea, and some do not fish much, and there are other eagles 

 who do. 



There are three species in India, which all occur in one part of our 

 province ; the first of these is the type of the genus, the Earn himself, 

 a bird of the Paleearctic region, and even of Greenland ; but only, 

 with us, a rare winter visitor to Upper Sind. Though he does not 

 breed here, it is worth while to note that he is, at home, chiefly a 

 builder on clifl's. 



He is by no means exclusively a fisher ; but, in some places and at 

 some times, an enemy to bird and beast ; with no objection to carrion. 

 He is the commonest eagle of the British Isles, especially in England, 

 and some years ago one perched several times on a tower of Windsor 

 Castle, and was reported to have actually been trapped there ; a great 

 pity — if true. Sir Edwin Landseer, long ago, got pretty well 

 *' heckled " for a great picture of Earns attacking swans with beak 

 and claw. It was observed that the eagle's beak is not his sword, but 

 chiefly his carving-knife ; and that this particular eagle, so far from 

 being in case to carve a swan, has frequently been defeated by the 

 domestic gander of the Shetland Isles, Our native Earns are both of 



