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sometimes tipped with white ; entire underparts including sides of face 

 and neck white, the sides, flanlvs, and thighs barred wath black, the 

 bars finer on the thighs, becoming mere spots on the lower part of 

 the tarsus. 



Natal down. — Apparently undescribed. 



Adult male—Wmg 337.8-349.3 (339.8); tail 244-268 (255.6); 

 culmen from cere 25.5-29 (27.1) ; tarsus 87-92 (89) ; middle toe without 

 claw 47-53 (49.7 mm.).2« 



Adult female (sexes alike).— Wing 353.3-388 (377.8); tail 266-290 

 (281.6); culmen from cere 27-31.5 (30); tarsus 89.5-100 (94.1); 

 middle toe without claw 51-55 (53 mm.)." 



Range. — Resident in heavy rain forest from low levels up to 5,000 

 feet or more, from southern Mexico (Veracruz — Actopan, Pasa Nueva, 

 Mirador, Barra de Santa Ana, etc.; Oaxaca — Santa Efigenia, Teotal- 

 cingo; Yucatdn — Pacaitun; Chiapas — La Tuxpura); Guatemala 

 (Choc6n River, Coban, Cahab6n, Choctum, Costa Grande, Patulul); 

 British Honduras (Manatol Lagoon, Belize); Honduras (Puerto 

 Caballas, Potreriilos, San Pedro); Nicaragua (Los Sdbalos, Lake 

 Nicaragua, San Emilia); El Salvador (Barra de Santiago, Puerto del 

 Triunfo); Costa Rica (Volcdn de Miravalles, San Jose, Juan Vina, 

 Guanacaste, Boruca, La Palma de Nicoya, Orosi, San Isidro, Jimenez, 

 etc.); Panama (Lion Hill, Gatun, Mount Pirri, Cordillera de Tole, 

 Colovevora), south in western South America to Colombia (Rio 

 Atrato, Puerto Valdivia, La Morelia, Bonda) and Ecuador (Galea); 

 possibly to Peru. Apparently nowhere numerous. 



Type locality. — Manatol (= Manatee) Lagoon, British Honduras. 



Morphnus ornatus Cuvier, Regne Anim., i, 1817, 319, part. — Lesson, Traits 

 d'Orn., 1831, 52. 



Spizaetus ornatus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xxxii, 1819, 60; Gal. Ois., 

 1825, pi. 21, part.— Kaup, Isis, 1847, 166 (monogr.), 366, 378, part.— 

 Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., 1850, 28, part. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. See. 

 London, 1857, 20 (Jalapa, Veracruz); 1859, 389 (Teotalcingo, Oaxaca). — 

 Moore, Proc. Zool, Soc. London, 1859, 52 (Puerto Caballos, Honduras; 

 habits). — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 215 (Vera Paz, Guatemala); Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 369 (Panama); 1873, 302 (Chyavetas, e. Peru); 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 120, part; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1879, 540 

 (Rem(5dios, Colombia). — Taylor, Ibis, 1860, 223 (Potreriilos and San Pedro, 

 Honduras). — Salle and Parzudaki, Cat. Oiseaux Mexique, 1862, 1 (Mex- 

 ico). — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, ii. No. 4, livr. 1, 1862, 2, part (monogr.); 

 No. 36, livr. 10, 1873, part (crit.).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, 

 158 (Cordillera de Tole, Veraguas) ; 1870, 215 (Calovebora, Veraguas). — 

 Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, ix, 1868, 132 (San Jose, La 

 Palma, and Juan Vinas, Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 



2° Seven specimens from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, 

 and Ecuador. 



" Eight specimens from Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa 

 Rica, and Panama. 



