88 FALCONID^g?]. 



i. p. 32 ; Jcril. Birds of Incl. p. 96, No. 51 ; Hiimr, Bough Noks, ii. 

 p. 298; S/iarpe, Cat. Ace. B. M. p. 67; Murray , Hdbk.,Zool., SfC, Sind. 

 p, 115 ; Circus pallidus, Sykes, P. Z. 8. 1832, p. 80 ; Shelley, B. Egypt, 

 p. 183; Hume, S. F. i. p. 160.— The Pale Habeier. 



Adult Male. — Above pale bluish grey, scapulars slightly darker ; 

 eyebrow and sides of face white ; under surface of body greyish white. 

 Quills blackish brown ; the secondaries ashy grey, tipped with white, 

 and the primaries washed with ashy grey and white at base of inner 

 web ; other quills white underneath. Upper tail-coverts white, banded 

 with ashy grey. Tail feathers — except the two middle ones, which are 

 uniform ashy grey — banded grey and white ; the tips and under surface 

 of all the feathers white. Bill black ; feet and irides yellow, 



Length. — 17"5 to 18'5 inches, culmen 1'15, wing 13-5 to 14, tail 8'8 

 to 9'6, tarsus 2"7o. 



Adult Female. — Above brown, the feathers of the head and hind neck 

 streaked, and of the upper surface and lesser wing-coverts margined 

 and tipped with rufous. Forehead, supercilium, and a spot below the 

 eye white. Cheeks and ear-coverts dark brown, slightly streaked 

 with tawny. Quills dusky brown, the primaries externally shaded 

 with ashy grey, and like the secondaries obsoletely barred darker and 

 tipped with buffy white ; upper tail-coyerts white, banded or spotted 

 with dark brown. Tail with the two centre feathers ashy brown and 

 with six blackish brown bands, the rest with four bands, those on the 

 outer feathers being pale rufous. Under tail-coverts rufescent. Under 

 wing-coverts buffy white, spotted and streaked with brown. Cere 

 greenish yellow; feet yellow ; irides brownish. 



Length. — 20'5 to 21 inches, wing 14 to 14'5, tail 10 to ID'S, tarsus 

 2-8 to 3. 



fl"a&. — Europe, Africa, and throughout India, Ceylon, China, and 

 Eurmah. Has been noted from the N. W. and Central Provinces, 

 Punjab, Sind, Boloochistan, Afghanistan, Persia, S. India, Kutch, the 

 Concans and Deccan, Kattiawar, Behar, Nepaul, In India it is a winter 

 visitant, arriving about the middle of September and leaving again in 

 March. 



Circus cineraceus, Mord. Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. p. 188; Gould. B. 

 Eur. i. pi. 35; Jeid. Birds Lid. i. p. 97, No. 62 ; Hume, Rough Notes, 

 ii. p. 303; Shelley, B. Fgypt, p. 184; Murray, Hdbk., Zool, ^-c, Sind, 

 p. 115. Circus pygargus, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 148; Sharpe, Oat. Ace. B. 

 M. p. 64. — Montagtje's Harrier. 



Adult Male.— Above blue grey ; throat, breast and wing-coverts darker, 

 the latter shghtly mottled, and with a terminal spot of a dark ash colour. 

 Primary coverts and secondaries silvery grey, tipped with white, and 

 with two bands of black, one of which is hidden by the greater wing- 

 coverts. Primaries black, the inner ones greyish at the tips and on 

 the inner web. Secondaries grey with a black band. Tail grey 

 or greyish white, the two outer feathers banded on their inner webs 

 with rufous, the others dusky, with fine ashy black bands. Upper 



