MALAYAN ORNITHOLOGY. AES 
the peninsula, particularly at the mouths of the rivers, where I 
often used to see it sitting on the fishing-stakes. 
I found it very plentiful about the mud-flats at the entrance to 
the Larut river. An officer of my regiment, stationed at Penang, 
tells me it breeds there, making a large nest near the tops of high 
trees. 
Circus ZRuciNosus (Linn.). The Marsh-Harrier. 
During November, while shooting Snipe near Bukit Minyak, 
Province Wellesley, I shot a Marsh-Harrier as it was quartering 
over the paddy-swamps ; it was a young bird, with the irides brown 
instead of yellow as in the adult. 
Crrcts crneracevs (Montagu). Montagu’s Harrier. 
In August, 1877, while travelling down the Moar river, and 
when within about thirty miles of its mouth, one of our party 
shot a Harrier as it flew over our boat. Besides being much 
knocked about by the shot, it fell into the water, and was such a 
draggled mass of feathers when we picked it out that I did not 
think it worth preserving. I also unfortunately neglected to 
write down a more acurate description of it than that it was a 
Harrier of ashy grey plumage, vent and thighs white, irides yellow, 
length from 18 to 20 inches; still, probably, it was C. cineraceus. 
Haiastur rnpvs (Bodd.). 
The Brahminy Kite is common throughout the Straits Settle- 
ments, particularly about the harbours, where it may be seen in 
considerable numbers picking up the refuse from the ships. 
I found them plentiful in Pérak. At Kwala Kangsa, in com- 
pany with the Crows, they used to collect at the place where all 
the offal from our camp was deposited, and carry off any filth they 
could find, often chasing the Crows and making them drop any 
particularly dainty morsel, which was quickly picked up by the 
pursuing Kite, though he, in his turn, frequently had to run the 
gauntlet of his comrades. 
In the Straits Settlements, both this species and AZtlvus affnis, 
on account of their foul feeding, have obtained a most expressive, 
but very objectionable, nickname. 
Minyvvus aFFINIs (Gould). 
On October 21, 1879. I shot a Pariah Kite in the Mount-Echo 
