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running in circles round the bird the latter fell on the 

 ground upon its back^ and was immediately seized by the 

 hoy." 



Mr. Wilson records a male in 1853, and a female in 1854, 

 both obtained near Worthing, in the autumn, p. 6605 ; and 

 Mr. Kent, in p. 8442, that one, in the Ringtail phimage, 

 was trapped in 'Ashburnham Park on January the 17tlij 

 1863. (See also p. 3343, S.S.) 



Mr. Jeffery, in his private. note-booTs, mentions that one 

 of these birds was seen at Ratham, and another at Punting- 

 tbn in December 1872 ; and that in November 1880 he saw, 

 in the flesh, a male and female which had been shot near 

 Sidlesham, both adult. 



MONTAGU'S HAKRIEE. 



Circus cineraceus. 



In September 1863 a very handsome specimen of this bird 

 was given to me by Mr. H. Padwick, of Horsham, who shot 

 it near Itchingfield. Being a very long shot, it was only 

 tipped on the wing, and very little injured. The plumage 

 being of a general chocolate colour on the upper parts, and 

 creamy yellow beneath, I believe it to be a bird of the first 

 year. Its claws were full of the flick of a rabbit. 



It is worthy of remark that Markwick, writing of the blue- 

 grey Hawks, of which he says (Linn. Trans, vol. iv. pp. 12-13) 

 he had some years before shot two, evidently had before 

 him both species, without knowing it, or rather that he at 

 first concluded the male Hen-Harrier and the male Mon- 

 tagu's to be the two sexes of the same species. His bird 

 with the reddish oblong spots must have been a cock Mon- 

 tagu's Harrier ; while the other, having no spots on the breast. 



