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RAPACES — DlURN^E. 
FALCONIDJE. 
Genus — Falco. (Linnceus.) 
Sub-genus — Circus, fSavigny.) Glaucopteryx, (Kaup.) 
Sub-generic Characters. — Tarsi long and slender; body tall and slim; tail 
long and rounded; wings long; first quill feather shorter than the fifth, the 
second a little shorter than the fourth, the third or fourth the longest; beak 
of medium size; cere large, covering more than a third of the beak. 
PALE-CHESTED HARRIER. 
Circus pallidus. 
Circus pallidus, Sykes ; Proceedings of Zoological Society, 
April, 1832. 
" " Keyserling and Blasius. 
" " schlegel. degland. 
Falco pallidus, Temminck; Man., vol. iv., p. 595. 
" " Bree, first edition. 
Circus Swainsoni, Smith. Kaup. 
" albescens, Lesson. 
" dalmaticus, Ruppel. 
" cinereus, Ch. Bonaparte. 
Strigiceps pallidus, Ch. Bonaparte. 
Busard meridional, Crespon. 
Specific Characters. — Head of male not spotted with pale brown; no dusky 
streaks on the breast; rump and upper tail coverts white, and barred with 
brown ash. — Sykes. 
Measurement. — Length of adult male in the Norwich Museum seventeen 
inches, length of wing thirteen inches. 
We are indebted to Colonel Sykes for the determination of this 
species. He was not, however, aware, when he published his paper 
in the "Zoological Transactions" for 1832, that the bird occurred in 
