Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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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Examples
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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 Douglas Dewar 1916
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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 1896
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