... . Adult female . Brown head has a small white spot above and below each eye , with narrow rufous - buffy streaking on crown and nape . Pale tips on owl - like facial ruff Pallid Harrier 109 Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus.
... Circus cyaneus , the Hen - Harrier , is also recorded by Heuglin and Rüppell from the Sudan and Abyssinia , but there are no specimens in the Museum which would lead us to suppose that it ever came so far south . Circus macrourus ...
... Circus macrourus ( Gmelin ) . Pallid Harrier . Busard pâle . Falco macrourus S. G. Gmelin , 1770. Reise Russland , 1 , p . 48 ; Voronezh , Russia . Range and Status . Palearctic winter migrant , mainly south of Sahara , some as far ...