. Notes on the birds of Northamptonshire and neighbourhood . ok for it, found it, collectedall the feathers that he could find, killed it (for theunhappy bird was still alive), and sent it to me,thereby making a valuable addition to my list ofcounty birds. Montagus Harrier is a summer migrant to ourIslands, and occasionally nests in various parts ofEngland, though it is seldom allowed to rear itsyoung in peace. In all its habits it closely resemblesthe Hen-Harrier, but is a smaller and more slenderly-made bird. From what I read in the Zoologist,the Field, and other publications, as w-ell as fr
. Notes on the birds of Northamptonshire and neighbourhood . ok for it, found it, collectedall the feathers that he could find, killed it (for theunhappy bird was still alive), and sent it to me,thereby making a valuable addition to my list ofcounty birds. Montagus Harrier is a summer migrant to ourIslands, and occasionally nests in various parts ofEngland, though it is seldom allowed to rear itsyoung in peace. In all its habits it closely resemblesthe Hen-Harrier, but is a smaller and more slenderly-made bird. From what I read in the Zoologist,the Field, and other publications, as w-ell as from privatecorrespondence, 1 am disposed to consider this speciesas by far the most common of the three BritishHarriers in England at the present time. It wasfiist distinguished from the Hen-Harrier by ColonelMontagu in 1802, but has probably often been mis-taken for that species by subsequent waiters, althoughit is very distinguishable, when on wing, by thedarker grey mantle of the old males, and the smallersize, greater proportionate length of wings, more.
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