444 BULLETIN 5 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



SPIZAETUS ORNATUS VICARIUS Friedmann 



Central American Crested Eagle-Hawk 



Adult (sexes alike in coloration).— Forehead, crown, occiput, and 

 occipital crest uniform black; nape and sides of hind neck and anterior 

 interscapulars snuff brown to mikado brown; posterior interscapulars, 

 scapulars, back, rump, upper tail coverts, median and greater upper 

 wing coverts sepia to dark snuff brown, subterminaily broadly banded 



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Figure 32. — Spizahus ornatus. 



with black; lesser upper wing coverts chiefly black, the brown basal 

 area relatively much restricted and narrowly tipped with white (as are 

 occasional upper tail coverts); remiges sepia paling to whitish on the 

 inner margin of the inner webs basally, and crossed by five or six 

 fuscous-black bands, the sub terminal one the broadest, and all 



