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Gen. XLIT. THRASAETUS Gray (1837 



Larger ; bill robust, culuien much curved ; feet 

 very powerful ; tarsus almost entirely bare, the 

 scutallse rough and irregular ; claws very large and 

 strong ; head with broad depressed crest, erectile. 



Length 38 in. ; wing 22.30 ; above, also crest 

 and chest "loatch, ashy grey ; tail irregularly 

 barred with black ; head, neck and under- 

 parts white.* 



175. Thrasa'etus harjjyia (Linn.) .S.N.. i., p. 86 Paraguay 

 (1758) [3Iexicol and Brazil; 

 Great Harpy Eagle. N. to Mexico. 



Gen. XLIII. HARPYOPSIS Salvad. (1875). 



Size large ; head crested ; tail long and rounded. 



Length about 34 in. ; wing 19 in. ; above 

 dusky brown ; below dirty white ; chest 

 greyish ; tail with 6 indistinct transverse 

 bands. 



176. Harpyopsis novce-guinoi Salvad., Ann. Mus. S.E. New 

 Civ, Genov., vii., p. 682 (1875). [Ynle Island.] Guinea. 

 New Guinea Hawk-Eagle. 



SUB. FAM. IV. GYPAETIN.E. 



Gen. XLIV. GYPAETUS Storr (1784). 



Nostrils hidden by stiff bristles : chin Avith a long tuft of black 

 bristles ; tarsus more or less feathered. 



Size large : length 41 in. ; wdng 29.50 ; head 

 white, a line each side of crown and another 

 below ear black ; general plumage above 

 black with white shafts ; wings and tail brown 

 and scapulars washed Avith ochraceous 

 brown ; beloAv taAvn}' ; tarsus feathered to 

 the toes. 

 177. Gypaetus barbatus grandis Storr, Alpen- 

 reise vom Jahr 1781, p. 69 (1784 ) [Switzer- 

 land.] 

 Bearded Vulture. 



* Immature birds are black above and on chest 

 below white. 



Spain, 



Alps and S.E. 

 Europe. 

 Central Asia, 

 Himalayas. 

 N. China, 

 head and neck ashy-grey ; 



