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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Family FALCONID.E. 
Subfamily ACCIPITEINiE. 
Genus CIECUS, Lacep. 
551. CIRCUS MELANOLEUCUS. 
THE PIED HARRIER. 
Falco melanoleucus, Forst. Ind. Zool p. 12, pi. 11. Circus melanoleucus, Jerd. 
B. Ind. i. p. 99 ; Hume, Rough Notes, ii. p. 307 ; Sioinhoe, Ibis, 1874, pi. x. ;. 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. i. p. 61 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1875, p. 225 ; Bl. B. Burm. 
p. 61 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 33 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv. p. 299 ; Hume, S. F. v. p. 11 ; 
Dmnd et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 29 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. yi. p. 21 ; Anders. Yun- 
nan Exped. p. 572, pis. xlv., xlvi. ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 9 ; Cripps, S. F. vii. 
p, 250 j Hume, S. F. viii. p. 82 ; Bingham, 8. F. viii. p. 191, ix. p. 145 ; Oates, 
8. F. X. p. 180. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole head and neck^ breast_, back 
and scapulars blacky a few of the lowermost feathers of the latter grey ; 
abdomen^ sides of the body^ vent^ under tail-coverts^ rump and upper tail- 
coverts white_, the latter with indistinct bars of pale grey ; tail grey tipped 
with white, and all the feathers,, except the central ones, internally 
margined with the same ; the first six primaries black, tipped with white ; 
the other primaries and the secondaries silver-grey, broadly margined 
internally with white ; tertiaries dark brown ; shoulder of wing and lesser 
wing-coverts white, tinged with grey ; winglet and primary-coverts greyish 
white ; remainder of the coverts black. 
Immature birds have the head and neck fulvous-brown, with large dark- 
brown spots; the ear-coverts streaked with brown; the lower plumage 
fulvous-white, streaked with brown, the streaks increasing in size towards 
the vent ; upper tail-coverts white, with a few fulvous spots ; quills brown, 
whitish interiorly and barred with darker brown, the shafts glossy hair- 
brown ; back and scapulars and wing-coverts dark brown with pale edges ; 
tail rufous-grey, tipped with white and crossed by five or six dark bands ; 
some of the feathers of the upper wing- coverts whitish, with rich rufous 
edges. 
The young bird is very rufous, with dark rufous-brown centres to all 
the feathers. 
Base of bill bluish, remainder black ; iris bright yellow ; legs orange- 
yellow ; cere dusky yellow ; claws horn-colour. 
Length 17*5 inches, tail 8*5, wing 13'8, tarsus 3^ bill from gape 1*2. 
