. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . 3GG CIRCUS CYANEUS. THE RING-TAILEDHARRIER. lOMMON KITK. HEX HARRIER. HAWK. RLUE OR BROW X OLEDE. Falro cyaneus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. l2<i. Male. Fnlco Iygargus. Limi. Sy^;t. Nat. I. 12(i. Female. Fulco cyaneus. Lath. Lid. Oni. IL 3!l. Falco cyaneus. Mont. Trans. Linn. Soc. IX. 102. Busard Saint
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . 3GG CIRCUS CYANEUS. THE RING-TAILEDHARRIER. lOMMON KITK. HEX HARRIER. HAWK. RLUE OR BROW X OLEDE. Falro cyaneus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. l2<i. Male. Fnlco Iygargus. Limi. Sy^;t. Nat. I. 12(i. Female. Fulco cyaneus. Lath. Lid. Oni. IL 3!l. Falco cyaneus. Mont. Trans. Linn. Soc. IX. 102. Busard Saint Martin. Falco cyaneus. Teram. Man. dOrn. Hen-llarrier. Circus cyaneus. Selb. lllustr. L G)i. Buteo cyaneus. Hen-llarrier. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. SJ. I. 7. The icings extendiiuf to about tico inches from the tip of thetail; the fourth quill longest, the third almost equal. Maleicith the 2lumage light binish-greg, the outer primaries black to-xrard the end, thetail-corerts irhife. Female umber-brown above,pale reddish-gelloic longitudinallg streaked with brown beneath,tail-corerts white. Young similar to the female, with the tintsricher. RING-TAILED HARRIER. 3G7 Malk.—The Common or Rini,-taile(l IlaiTier is of a slenderelongated form, although its body, when the feathers arc re-moved, is found to be short, as in the Owls. Like them alsoit is very light, so that the bulk of the bird consist
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