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Circus pygargUS. Montagu's Harrier. 



Falco pygargUS Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 89 : 



England. 



Circus pygargUS {Linn.); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. 1874, 



p. 64. 

 Circus cineraceus (^Montagu) ; £. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 93 ; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 319. 



PygargUS = 7rvyapyoi, white-rumped. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Smnmer Visitor, 

 l)reeding regularly in East Anglia and occasionally in other 

 parts of England and Wales, from Northumberland south- 

 wards to Devonshire and Cornwall. To Scotland it is 

 a rare visitor. A female shot on the 15th of June, 1882, 

 in the Solway district, was probably nesting. In Ireland 

 about a dozen specimens have been procured, mostly in 

 CO. Wicklow. 



General Distribution. — Montagu's Harrier breeds in 

 Europe, north-western Asia, and north Africa, from the Gulf 

 of Finland eastwards to south-western Siberia and Turkestan, 

 and from Morocco to Algeria. In winter it visits India, 

 Burma, and Ceylon, also Africa, ranging to Cape C^olony, 

 and the Canary Islands. 



Genus BUTEO Lacepede, Tableaux Ois. 1799, p. 4. 

 Type : B. buteo (Linn.). 



BUteo, a kind of Hawk known to Pliny. Cognate with fiitas, /3t)Ja, biibo, 

 })ubere=to cry like a Bittern, bMcco=the cheek, etc. (Vani^ek). 



Buteo buteo. Buzzard. 



ralco buteo Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 90 : Savoy. 



Buteo vulgaris Leach ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. 1874, p. 186 ; 

 B. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 94 ; Saunders, Manual, 2nd 

 ed. 1899, p. 321. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — k Resident, breeding 

 in the western and central parts of Scotland, and the Inner 



