. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . 30G CIRCUS CYANEUS. THE RING-TAILEDHARRIER. COMMON HARRIER. I!EN HARRIER. RLUE HAWK. BLUE KITE. BLUE OR BROWN GLEUE. Fig. 231. Falco cyaiieus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 12G. Male. Falco Pygargus. Linn. Syst. Nat. L 12fi. Feniale. Falco cyaneus. Lath. Ind, Oni. IL 30. Falco cyaneus. Mont. Trans. Linn. Sec. IX. 182. Busard
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . 30G CIRCUS CYANEUS. THE RING-TAILEDHARRIER. COMMON HARRIER. I!EN HARRIER. RLUE HAWK. BLUE KITE. BLUE OR BROWN GLEUE. Fig. 231. Falco cyaiieus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 12G. Male. Falco Pygargus. Linn. Syst. Nat. L 12fi. Feniale. Falco cyaneus. Lath. Ind, Oni. IL 30. Falco cyaneus. Mont. Trans. Linn. Sec. IX. 182. Busard Saint Martin. Falco cyaneus. Tcmm. Man. dOrn. L 72. Hen-Harrier, Circus cyaneus. Selb. lUustr. L CC. Buteo cyaneus. Hen-Karrier. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 89. The wings extending to about two inches from the tip of thetail; the fourth quill longest.^ the third almost equal. Malewith the plumage light bluish-greg, the outer primaries black fo-tcard the end, the tail-coverts white. Female umber-brown above,pale reddish-yellow longitudinally streaked xcith brown beneath,tail-coverts white. Young similar to the female, with the tintsricher. RING-TAILED HARRIER. 3G7 Male.—The Common or Ring-tailed Harrier is of a slenderelongated form, although its body, when the feathers are re-moved, is found to be short, as in the Owls. Like them alsoit is very light, so that the bulk of the bird consists chie
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