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tipped with whitish; scapulars, median and greater upper wing coverts 

 irregularly mottled with neutral gray and narrowly tipped with pale 

 neutral gray to whitish; secondaries and inner primaries very much 

 mottled light neutral gray to neutral gray or pale smoke gray, in fact 

 these feathers are better described as these shades of gray mottled 



Figure 30. — Harpia harpyja. 



with blackish, tipped narrowly with pale grayish to white, crossed by 

 a broad subterminal black band and by several irregular and incom- 

 plete bands anterior to this one, the bands more definite, the mottling 

 with blackish less pronounced, on the outer primaries where the gray- 

 ish color is replaced by a dusky grayish hair brown; the underside of 

 all the remiges much whiter where grayish above, making the black 



