marsh-harrier

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_Aquila nævioïdes_), the osprey, the vulture, the falcon, the kite, the honey-buzzard, the marsh-harrier, the sparrow-hawk, owls of two kinds

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  1. A harrier of the genus Circus, especially C. œruginosus: so called from their fondness for hunting for frogs in marshy places. See harrier, 2.

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  • _Aquila nævioïdes_), the osprey, the vulture, the falcon, the kite, the honey-buzzard, the marsh-harrier, the sparrow-hawk, owls of two kinds —  History of Phoenicia
  • Lincoln's sparrow; these, with a large marsh-harrier and a colony of cliff-swallows, completed my bird catalogue at this place. —  Birds of the Rockies
  • Those who shoot duck have occasion often to say hard things of the marsh-harrier and the peregrine falcon, because these birds are apt to come as unbidden guests to the shoot and carry off wounded duck and teal before the _shikari_ has time to retrieve them. —  A Bird Calendar for Northern India
 

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