AYES. 
3 
Order ACCIPITRES. 
Suborder FALCONE S. 
Earn. VULTURIDiE. 
monachus. 
Genus VULTUR. 
Vultur 
Scully^ Str^ V • ^ UmC) b°ugb Notes, i. p. 1 (1869); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 3 (1874); 
p. 139 (Ism aV P ’ ( 1873 ) ’ Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 98; Prjev. in Rowley’s Orn. Misc. ii. 
u ^ur cinereus s ’ ‘ Nnzbier, Orn. Turkest. (Severtz. Coll.), p. 2 (1888). 
Ornis ’ '“ v ’ eitz - Turkest. Jevotn. p. 62 (1873); Zarudu. Ois. Transcasp. p. 31 (1885); Radde, 
J) f g P- 466 (1887). 
n^^estan, and S ^ at f S ^ la ^ ^bis Vulture is found, though rarely, in the hills bordering Eastern 
a lwar,” a ew stragglers are occasionally seen in the plains. The Turin name is 
Ota, 
Earn. EALCONIDA). 
Subfam. ACCIPITRINJE. 
Genus CIRCUS. 
Clr cus 
, CUs cyaneus. 
Us c yane Us fT ^ oi 
feis, 1881 J j fehar P e ; Cat - B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 52 (1874); Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 125 (1876); Bidd. 
Ar. Wien wf ' Scu11 ^ ibid - P- 421 > Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 54 ; Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. 
a, 2 ool. v ’ * S3 > p- 82 i Scully, J. A. S. Beng. lvi. p. 77 (1887); Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) 
^icep s a Z ^ *’ P ‘ 66 (1889 )' 
,, °rn. SC 1 T tZ ' TurteSt ' JeV0tn ' P' 63 (1873 ) 5 Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 109 ; Prjev. in Rowley’s 
' l0, 95(j. p> P ‘ ,) Jl ( 1877 ) > Zarudu. Ois. Transcasp. p. 34 (1885) ; Radde, Ornis, iii. p. 472 (1887). 
ex Pan Se ° 41 . <)Vember 4 ’ 1873 -~ Length 18-25 inches, wing 13B, tail 9‘0, tarsus 2*8 ; 
hr 2 ^ches r.r ' , IllS § ol(len 1 bill dark borny 5 feet golden. Wings reach within 
t°- 1086 . y v ° f taiL ^oung bird.] 
°’ d b69. Y ll >i/ aiK ^ November 21, 1873. “Ach-sa.” [An adult male.] 
bird.] " lr vaud ’ November 21, 1873. “ Kara-sa = young of the grey bird.” [Young 
E ' 1 1 
as t j' Nylons 0 f w Ntes: — “We found this bird very common all over the more culti- 
^ et ^een y U1 vand from Karghalik. We never met with it in the desert-tracts, such 
V C 0 | tlme *e werp 1 ' • f, aud Kashghar, nor at any elevation in the hills. We saw it the 
be e ' | 0,1< ^ Biddul ^ 1U ^ i<! countr y fe° m November to May.” Specimens were procured 
1873, ^ 1 at Haralbaslii in January 1874, and at Yangihissar on the 1st of 
>. er 1873 1 at Maralbashi in January 1874, and at Yangihissar on the 1st of 
187 3 . St °liczk a ’s d * 
^ ar ^ not es this Harrier as not uncommon near Yarkand in November 
^ Ge ds^ff ll0 fe “ Tl^^i n °^ a PP ear t° have met with the species, but Hr. Scully has the 
; t p e le , en * Harrier is a permanent resident in the plains of .Kasligharia and 
53 °A over rUs j S ( 1S Sa ^ phiced in long grass jungle. 1 often observed this bird 
1 grown marshes and hare fields, with a wonderfully long-sustained flight. 
