Syn. of 
adult. 
Syn. of 
young. 
General 
descrip- 
tion. 
Female 
bird. 
24 RAPACES. FALCO. Harriers. 
SECTION 1V.—HARRIERS. 
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERS. 
Bill bending from its base, neither very thick nor strong. 
Nostrils egg-shaped. ‘Tail long and rounded. Wings long, 
the first quill-feather very short, the third and fourth the 
longest. 'Tarsi long and slender. 
Toes short. Neck generally ruffed. Are bolder, and more 
active than the Buzzards. Strike their prey upon the ground, 
and generally fly very low, 
Marsh Harrier.—Falco rufus, Linn. 
PLATE 9. 
{Falco rufus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 25. 51.—Gmei. Syst. 1. p. 266. 
77. 
Circus rufus, Briss. Ornith. v. 1. p. 404. 
Circus palustris, Briss. 1. p. 401. 
La Harpaye, Buff: Ois. v. 1. p. 217.—Jd. Pl. Enl. 460. 
Ee Harpaye, ou de marais, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 1. 69. 2d ed. 
Brandweihe, Bechst. Tasschenb. Deut: p. 24. sp. 19. 
Harpy Falcon, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 51. 
{Falco zruginosus, Linn. 1. p. 130.—Fauna Suec. No. 66.—Gmel. Syst. 
| 1. p. 267.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. 1. 25. 53.—Raii, Syn. p. 17. A. 4.— 
Muller, No. 69. 
! Falco arundinaceus, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 1. p. 681. 19. 
Le Busard de marais, Buff: Ois. 1. p. 218.—Jd. Pl. Enl, 424. a yearling 
bird. 
Sumpfweihe, Meyer, Taschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 43. 
Moor Buzzard, Br. Zool. 1. No. 57. t. 27.—Jd. fol. p. 67. t. A. 5.—Arct. 
Zool. 2. p. 225. 1.—Lath. Syn. 1. p. 53.—Id. Suppl. 15.— Mont. Ornith. 
Dict. 2 vo.— Will. (Ang.) p. 75. t. 7.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 1. t. 8.— 
Walc. Syn. 1. t. 8.—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 3.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. 
19. 
Provincial, Duck Hawk, White-héeaded Harpy, Moor 
Buzzard. 
The female bird of this species, which is represented on 
Plate 9. measures twenty-three inches in length, and in 
breadth, with extended wings, four feet five inches. The 
bill is bluish-black. Cere lemon-yellow. Irides blackish- 
brown. Crown of the head, throat, and cheeks straw-yellow, 
