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mottled and spotted with black (only a subterminal spot in the imma- 

 ture plumage). 



Natal down. — Not known. 



Adult male.—Wmg 543-580 (556.5); tail 372-412 (392); culmen 

 from cere 41.5-54 (48.3); tarsus 114-120 (115.8); middle toe without 

 claw 73-80 (77.0 mm.).^" 



Adult jemale.—Wmg 583-610 (578.6); tail 417-420 (418); culmen 

 from cere 46-63 (53); tarsus 118-130 (123); middle toe without claw 

 83-90 (86.0 mm.).2i 



Range. — Tropical America in general (except West Indies), in 

 wooded districts; north to southern Mexico (Almaloya, Mirador, 

 Vera Cruz; Tehuan tepee, Guichiloma, Oaxaca) ; south through Guate- 

 mala (Vera Paz, Secanquim, Coban) ; Nicaragua (Savala) ; Costa Rica 

 (Cerro de la Candelaria, El Hogar, San Jose, Cartago, Turrialba, etc.) ; 

 Panama (Lion Hill, Almirante, Banana River); Colombia,^^ British, 

 Dutch, and French Guianas (no records from Venezuela or Ecuador) ; 

 Brazil (Rio Madeira, Amazonas, Para, Sao Paulo, CantagaUo) ; eastern 

 Peru (Rio UcayaU) ; Bolivia (Moxos, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz de la 

 Sierra) ; Paraguay, and northern Argentina (Gran, Salta, Misiones). 

 Rare north of Costa Rica. 



Type locality. — Mexico. 



Vultur harpyja Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 86 (Mexico; based on 

 Yzuanhuatli Herndndez, Mexico, p. 34; Aquilae cristatae genus Ray, Av., 161; 

 ed. 12, i, 1766, 121). 



Falco harpyja Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 251. — Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 

 9. — Shaw, Gen. Zool., vii, pt. 1, 1809, 54. — Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. 

 Nat., xxxii, 1819, 61. 



Gypaetos harpyja Daudin, Traits d'Orn., ii, 1800, 27. 



Thrasaetus harpyia Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1837, 108 (Mexico); 

 Consp. Gen. Av., i, 1850, 29; Rev. Mag. Zool., vi, 1854, 537.— Gray, Gen. 

 Birds, i, 1845, 15; List Spec. Brit. Mus., ed. 2, pt. 1, 1848, 20 (Brit. Guiana); 

 Hand-list, i, 1870, 16, No. 142. — Des Murs, m Castelnau, Exped. Am6r. du 

 Sud, Ois., 1855, 8 (Rio Ucayali e. Peru). — Strickland, Orn. Syn., i, 1855, 

 26. — Hartlaub, Journ. fiir Orn., 1857, 41 (Rio Ucayali). — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 215 (Vera Paz, Guatemala); Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1864, 368 (Panama; flight); Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 120; Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1878, 302 (Rio Maran6n, above Nauta, e. Peru); 1879, 637 (Moxos, 

 Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia). — Lawrence, Ann. Lj^c. 

 Nat. Hist. New York, vii, 1862, 461 (Panama); U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 4, 

 1875, 39 (Almoloya, Oaxaca; fresh colors of unfeathered parts). — Frantzius, 

 Journ. fur Orn., 1869, 368 (Costa Rica). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., i, 

 1874, 224 (Brit. Guiana); Hand-List, i, 1899, 259.— Ridgway, U. S. Geol. 

 and Geogr. Surv. Terr., ser. 2, Bull. 2, 1876, 145 (monogr.); Nom. North 

 Amer. Birds, 1881, No. 450; Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 242; ed. 2, 



2° Six specimens from Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and Brazil. 



21 Four specimens from Costa Rica, Panama, Surinam, and Bolivia. 



22 Until recently not reported from Colombia, but now known from several 

 Colombian localities. 



