CIRCUS CINERACEUS. 
(MONTAGU’S HARRIER.) 
Fcdc° cineraceus, Mont. Orn. Diet. vol. i. (1802); Temm. Man. i. p. 76 (1820) 
Circus cinerarius , Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamin. &c. Brit. Mus. p. 9 (1816) " ' 
Circus montagui , Yieill. N. Diet. xxxi. p. 411 (1819). ’ ; 
Circus dnerascens, Steph. Gen. Zool. m p. 41 (1825); Kelaart, Prodrome Cat n 114- 
Layard, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1853, xii. p. 105 ; Schlegel, Yog. Nederl pis 18 1 q \\ orn’ 
Circus cineraceus, Cuv. Reg. An. i. p. 388 (1828); Gould, B. of wV/S 
P ' S7; Gould ’ B - of Gt - Britain, pt. xii.; Hume, Rough Notes, ii’ 
p- o . ewt. ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 138; Holdsworth, P. Z. S 1872 p 413- Shell 
B. of Egypt, p. 184; Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 278. ’ P ' ’ h Uey ’ 
Circus pygargus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds, i. p. 64 (1874). 
m ten°nCeyl of""’ Falcon of Kelaart; Swamp-Bank, Sports- 
Betu ulu, Transylvania. Cenizo, Spanish. 
j illi-gedda, lei.; Puna-Prdndu, Tam. 
Kurula-goya , Bajaliya, Sinhalese. 
of T le ? 1 ° 17 ' 5 «*«* 
T J Ji" 10 ; . tarsus 2-2 to 2 ' 3 ; mid toe bL chw (straight) 0-45 ;* height of bill at clre oSto ^ ^ 5 ^ 8 ' b 
SSf:- 6 S ° me me ” ntS ° f 0ld birds examples in the British Museum exemplifying the above 
Win S- Tail. Tarsus. 
B. Bengal Q “■ in. 
d ■ N. Bengal J? 9 ‘ 9 2-2 
6 • Seville .. Jf.® 19-0 2-3 
its n g 
reaCh ^ 1 inCh 0f the Mtch second primary, falling 
atL tip, paling at ’’ “ 
sTatloTour^^fi F 5th ^ ^ 
crossed by two dark ’brown baM^ cfullerSve“ 
feathers slate-grey, the next two paler grey, barred with brown A } ' h slate -g re 7; *"'0 central tail- 
more or less tinged with rufous towards the base and barred with TT^/ Wlth tbe ^o^cl-colour white, 
Beneath, from the chest, white, striped with narrow steaks of ruW dark-edged rufous bands. 
and under wing-coverts barred with rufous but not extendi t t0 ^ “ nd ° r tai '-averts ; axillary plume 
In seme examples the ashen hue extends much tother down the " h * “ J “I“»- 
““L' BriMfcent 114 IrjhlYT 8 ft- Mr. Howard 
sn Museum. The whole bird is dark sooty brown, with the cheeks, back, 
