. 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 .. . Fjo. 232. 378 CIRCUS CINERACEUS. MONTAGUES HARRIER. ASII-COLOURED HARRIER. ASH-COLOURED Ash-coloured Falcon. Falco citieraceus. Mont. Orn. Montagu. Falco cineraceus. Temm. Man. Harrier. Circus cineraceus. Selb. Tllustr. I. cineraceus. Ash-coloured Harrier. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 90. The icings exten
. 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 .. . Fjo. 232. 378 CIRCUS CINERACEUS. MONTAGUES HARRIER. ASII-COLOURED HARRIER. ASH-COLOURED Ash-coloured Falcon. Falco citieraceus. Mont. Orn. Montagu. Falco cineraceus. Temm. Man. Harrier. Circus cineraceus. Selb. Tllustr. I. cineraceus. Ash-coloured Harrier. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 90. The icings extending a little beyond the tail; the third quillmuch longer than the fourth. Male with the plumage light bluish-grey^ the outer primaries black toward the end, the tail-covertswhite. Female umber-brouu above, pale reddish-yellow, withlongitudinal bright red streaks beneath, tall-coverts white. Youngsimilar to the female, but having the lower parts of a uniformbright red. Male.—This species, which was first clearly distinguishedfrom the Common Harrier, and accurately described, by Mon-tagu, is somewhat smaller and more slender than that head is rather small, and ovate ; the bill small and com-pressed ; the upper mandible with its dorsal line sloping andsomewhat convex on the cere, its sides slightly convex towardthe end, its edge
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