1850.] Conspectus of the Ornithology of India, 329 



Konta Falcon, Muskooroo Falcon, and Rufous-eared 

 Falcon, Latham. 



Chdd or Mat Chil (' Meadow kite), Beng. (generic) : 

 Kutar, and Kulehsir ('capped'), Hind. : SufedSira 

 (* white-headed'), and Tiki Bauri (Hawk with the 

 tika frontal mark), ibid. (B. Ham.) 

 Hab. Europe, Asia, and Africa : common in India. 

 Remark. The adult males of this bird in India have yellow irides, 

 and the wings and tail ash-grey. This phase we have never seen in 

 Europe ; though represented (from an Indian specimen however) in 

 Gould's * Birds of Europe.' 



36. Circus cyaneus (Gould's B. E. pi. 33.) 



Syn. F. cyaneus, F. pygargus, et F. hudsonius, L. 



F. bohemicus, F. albicans, F. griseus, F. montanus, F. uli- 

 ginosus, F. albidus, F. variegatus, et F. Buffonii, Gmelin. 

 F. cinereus, et F. rubiginosus, It. Poseg. p. 29. 

 F. europygistus, Bosc, Daudin. 

 F, strigiceps et Circus gallinarius, Daudin. 

 Pygargus dispar, Koch. 



Tapus, or Mush-khor (' Rat-eater'), of Kabul (Bur- 

 nes). 

 Hab. Europe, N. Africa, N. and Middle Asia ; sub-Himalayan 

 territories. 



Remark. The American race, C. uliginosus, (Gmelin), according to 

 Dr. Schlegel, " se distingue, dans tous les ages, du Busard St. Martin'* 

 (C. cyaneus) "d'Europe, par des tarses plus eleve's. Le vieux male 

 a ordinairement toutes les parties inferieures, a partir de la poitrine, 

 ornees des taches nombreuses, soit orbiculaires, soit transversales, d'un 

 brun ferrugineux." Sir W. Jardine, however, could not distinguish 

 some Bermuda specimens from C. cyaneus of Europe. Vide Contrib, 

 Orn. Neither does Mr. G. R. Gray regard the N. American Harrier 

 as distinct from C. cyaneus in his last British Museum Catalogue of 

 Raptores (1848). 



37. C. Swainsonii, A. Smith. (Gould's B. E, pi. 34). 

 Syn. C. pallidus, Sykes. 



C. dalmaticus, Ruppell. 



