HEN-HARRIER-^MONTAGWS HARRIER, 143 
August/ and the " History of Alton " mentions one obtained 
at Wolmer pond in the autumn of the same year. 
Mr. G. W. Smith, who succeeded Mr. Sutton Davies as 
ornithological recorder of Winchester, mentions a specimen 
shot by a keeper at Stockbridge on November 23rd, 1895 
and a male procured near Andover on November i8th, 
1897. 
Dr. Cowper says it has been obtained near Pan Common, 
in the Isle of Wight, and Wadham records a specimen 
killed on Westridge Down, on February 7th, 1891. 
Specimens have also been recorded at various times 
from Hackwood, Farringdon, Alton, Titchfield — in fact 
there are few large estates in the county where it has 
not occurred, and on the high open downs of our northern 
districts it may be reckoned a frequent winter visitor. 
128. Circus cineraceus. Montagu's Harrier. 
Ash-coloured Harrier. 
A regular summer visitor to certain districts of the 
mainland ; less common in the Isle of Wight. 
Although this bird was not recognized as a distinct 
species in England until the beginning of last century, 
it is now by far the most common harrier in this county, 
and we believe that there are two districts within our 
borders, besides the New Forest, where it appears annually, 
and attempts, with more or less success, to rear its young. 
Our oldest record is from the Isle of Wight. Bury 
mentions, in the "Zoologist" of 1844, that he had examined 
a young female killed some years before on Sir Richard 
* "Zoologist." August, 1894. 
