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FALCONIDiE. 



Brown -ash Harrier, beneath whitish, with the shafts of each fea- 

 ther bay, the secondary quills with three dusky bars. 



Falco cinerascens. Linn, Trans. (Mont.) ix. 188. Vieil. Gal. 

 des Ois. pL \3. 



Inhabits England. A new bird to Britain, dis- 

 covered by Montagu, and described by him in the 

 Linnean Transactions. Length eighteen inches: beak 

 black : cere greenish : eyelids and irides bright yel- 

 low : crown, cheeks, throat, under part of the neck, 

 and upper part of the breast dark ash-colour : neck 

 above, back, and scapulars ashy-brown : lesser wing- 

 coverts nearly the same, greater dusky-black ; quills 

 nearly black : secondary quills ashy-brown, with three 

 dusky bars across them, half an inch broad, two of 

 which are hid by the coverts : body beneath white, 

 with a broad bright bay streak down the shaft of 

 each feather : tail somewhat cuneiform, the two middle 

 feathers dark brown, the others dark ash-colour, palest 

 on the two or three outer feathers, the inner webs 

 approaching to white, and all, except the two middle 

 ones, with four equidistant bars on the inner webs, 

 in the two outer bay, in the rest more or less dusky : 

 legs orange-colour, long and slender : claws small, 

 black. The female much resembles that sex of the 

 C. Pygargus, but the ferruginous parts are much 

 brighter, and instead of the under being streaked with 

 dusky, they are purely bright ferruginous. 



Sp. 4. Ci. acoli. 



Falco acoli. Shaw, v. vii. p. 172. pi. 23. — Southern Africa. 

 Sp. 5. Ci. melanoleucos. 



Falco melanoleucos.— S^atc, v. vii, p. 154. — Southern Africa. 

 Sp. 6. Ci. palustris. 



