4 MONTAGU’S HARRIER. 
seen beating over the marshes and breeding near at hand. Not having, however, obtained the specimen 
myself, the rules stated in the Introduction preclude the insertion of a plate to better illustrate his peculiar 
colouring. The female with which this singularly tinted bird paired was of the ordinary type, possibly 
young, if we may trust to the statements of certain authors, who describe the eyes ol young females as hazel 
and those of older birds as yellow. 
The female previously referred to, and the two largest of her brood, are figured on the Plates ; the woodcut 
gives a correct representation of one of the favourite attitudes of the smallest and most helpless of the same 
family. 
