110 FALCONIDA, 
Montagu’s Harrier is found in Poland, Germany, and 
France. M. Baillon found it in the marshes of Abbeville, 
and considered it a summer visitor, appearing in April and 
departing in October. M. Temminck says it is very eom- 
mon in the marshes of Holland. It inhabits Provence, 
Dalmatia, Italy, Sicily, Malta, and on the same parallel 
as far east as Trebizond. Mr. Blyth has found this spe- 
cies in India. 
The length of the adult male is about seventeen inches. 
The beak is nearly black; the cere greenish yellow, and 
partly hid by the radiating hairs of the lore; the irides 
bright yellow; the head, the whole of the neck, back, 
wing-coverts, secondaries, and tertials, bluish grey; the 
secondaries with three dark bars across, the last of which 
is visible externally when the wing is closed; the primaries 
almost black; upper surface of the central tail-feathers 
bluish grey; the lateral tail-feathers white, barred with 
reddish orange ; breast, belly, and under tail-coverts, white — 
with various longitudinal streaks of reddish orange: under 
wing-coverts barred with reddish brown; under surface of 
tail-feathers dull white, barred with dusky grey; legs and 
toes slender and yellow ; the claws black. 
A young male in my own collection, from which the 
figure was taken, killed while undergoing his second moult, 
and in a gradual state of change, has the top of the head 
and the feathers round the cheeks a mixture of brown and 
rufous, ear-coverts grey; occiput varied with white; the 
nape, back, scapulars, tertials, and upper tail-coverts, lead 
grey ; upper surface of all the tail-feathers, except the two 
in the middle, barred with two shades of brown and 
rufous ; middle tail-feathers, with the outer webs uniform 
pearl grey; the inner webs with five dark brown bands on 
a greyish ground ; wing-primaries and secondaries blackish 
