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it is said to have cleft a man's skull with its beak; its ordinary- 

 food is the Sloth, and it frequently carries off Fawns. 



MoRHPNus, Cuv.(l) 



The Morphni, like the preceding, have wings shorter than the 

 tail ; but their elevated and slender tarsi compel us to separate 

 them. 



Some of them have naked and scutellated tarsi, 



F, guianensis, Daud. j Petit Mgle de la Guiane, Maud. Encyc. 

 It has singular resemblance in colour and crest to the Great 

 Fisher Eagle of the same country ; but it is not so large, and its 

 naked and scutellated tarsi sufficiently distinguish it ; the man- 

 tle is blackish, sometimes variegated with a deep grey ; abdo- 

 men white, undulated more or less strongly with fawn colour; 

 head and neck sometimes grey, and sometimes white j the occi- 

 pital tuft, long and blackish. 



F. urubitinga^ L.; Spix, I. Black ; no crest ; rump and base of 

 the tail, white. When young, brown above; fawn coloured, sprin- 

 kled with brown beneath (Col. 55). This beautiful bird hunts 

 on inundated grounds. (2) 

 Others have elevated tarsi feathered throughout. 



F. occipitalis, Daud. ; Huppart, Vaill. Afr. I, ii j Bruce, 

 Abyss, pi. xxxii. As large as a Crow j black ; a long crest or 

 tuft pendent from the occiput; the tarsi, borders of the wings, 

 and of the bands under the tail, whitish. Throughout all Africa. 



F. omatus, Daud.;(3) F. superhus and coronatus, Sh.; Crested 

 Goshawk, Vaill. Afric. I, xxvi ; Spizaetus ornatus, Vieillot, 

 Galer. 21 ; Mgle moyen de la Guiane, Maud. Encyclop. ; Booted 

 Sparrowhawk, Azz. Calotte, and crests black ; sides of the 

 neck of a bright red ; mantle black, variegated with grey, un- 

 dulated with white ; above, white ; flanks, thighs, and tarsi 

 striped with black ; tail, black, with four grey bands. A beau- 

 tiful bird of South America, varying from black and white to 

 a deep brown. (4) 



(1) Morphnus, the Greek name for an undetermined bird of prey. It is from my 

 Morphnus that Vieillot has made his Spizaetes. 



(2) The Filol longipes, Illig". ; the Aq. picta, Spix, 1, appear to me to be young' 

 Urubitingae. Add the Mgle-autour mouchete, [Aq. maculosa,) YeWl. Amer. pi. iii, 

 bis; the Panema, {Jlq. milvo'ides) Spix, Id. 



(3) This is certainly the Urutaurana of Marcgrave? but that author describes it 

 as being of the size of an Eagle, which is at least one-third too large. The Har- 

 pyia braccata, Spix, HI, is the young bird of the same species. 



(4) Add here, of crested species, the Uanchard, VaiU. Afr. 3, {F. albescens, Sh.j) 



