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two occur in Tropical America, both of them being well-known in our region. ‘Two 
of the remaining eight are found in Africa; the other six are Asiatic, and are spread 
from India and Ceylon to Borneo, Java, Celebes, and to Waigiou in the Moluccas. 
1. Spizaetus ornatus. 
Falco ornatus, Daud. Traité, ii. p. 77°. 
Spizaetus ornatus, Scl. P. Z.S. 1857, p. 2017; 1859, p. 389 >. Moore, P. Z.S. 1859, p. 52°; Sel. & 
Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 215°; P. Z.S. 1864, p. 369°; Salv. P. 7. S. 1867, p. 1587; 1870, p.215°; 
Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 182°; v. Frantz. J. £, Orn. 1869, p. 367°; Nutting, Pr. U.S. 
Nat. Mus. v. p. 404"; vi. p. 408”; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 167°; Zeledon, 
An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 126"; Cherrie, Auk, 1892, p. 328 %. Underwood, Ibis, 
1896, p. 446*°. 
Falco mauduyti, Daud. Traité, ii. p. 73". 
Spizaetus mauduyti, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. i. p. 262"; Lawr. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, 
p. 88”; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 236”. 
Supra niger, crista elongata, nigra, cervicis lateribus et cervice postica rufis ; alis extus fuscis, nigro indistincte 
fasciatis, tectricibus minoribus albo maculatis: subtus albus, gutture striis nigris marginato, abdomine 
toto nigro transfasciato, tibiis et tarsis plumosis quoque fasciis angustiorihus notatis ; subalaribus albis, 
nigro guttatis; remigibus subtus griseo-albidis, nigro fasciatis ; cauda nigra, fusco terminata et fasciis 
tribus fuscis ornata; rostro nigro, digitis flavis; cera lorisque viridi-flavis; iride aurantiaca. (Deser. 
maris ex Chimalapa, Tehuantepec, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 
~ mari similis, sed major. 
Juv. capite, cervice et corpore toto subtus lactescenti-albis; crista nigra ; hypochondriis nigro maculatis; tibiis 
et tarsis plumosis albis, nigro fasciatis. (Descr. exempl. ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Muxico, Jalapa (Sailé2), Mirador, Uvero (Sumichrast 1°), Actopam, Barra de 
Santa Ana(Ferrari-Perez !5), Teotalcingo (Boucard *),Cacoprieto, Santa Efigenia?9 *° 
(Sumichrast), Chimalapa (Richardson) ; BRITISH Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneauz) ; 
Guatemata, Coban (Mus. Brit.18), Cahabon (Skinner®), Choctum, Costa Grande 
(0. S. & F. D. G.); Honpuras, Puerto Caballo (Leyland *); Nicaragua, Los 
- Sdbalos (Wutting 12), San Emilio, Lake of Nicaragua (Hichardson); Costa Rica, 
Miravalles (Underwood **), La Palma, Juan (v. Frantzius 1°, Zeledon °, Nutting“), 
Orosi (v. Frantzius}°), San Isidro, San Vicente, Jiménez (Underwood), San José 
(Carmiol®, Zeledon 4, Cherrie’®); Panama, Cordillera de Tolé’, Calovevora ® 
(E. Arcé), Lion Hill (If*Leannan®).—Sourn Amenica, from Colombia to Guiana 
and Brazil }®. 
This Crested Eagle is one of the most beautiful of Neotropical Birds of Prey, and is 
found throughout the whole of Central America. Sumichrast }® says that it is common 
in the large forests of the eastern coast of Mexico, but occurs very rarely in the plains 
of the Pacific, where probably only isolated specimens are met with. In Guatemala 
we procured it at Choctum and in the Costa Grande, and many were sent by Skinner 
from the districts of Vera Paz. Leyland reports it as rare in Honduras, and it appears 
to be far less plentiful in Nicaragua than in Costa Rica, where it has been obtained 
