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told Osbert Salvin that he saw them regularly in the forests (Sclater 

 and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, p. 368). Definite records 

 however are relatively few. The Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 received two from Almirante, Bocas del Toro, shot April 15, 1923, 

 and March 26, 1924, by H. S. Blair, division manager for the 

 Chiriqui Land Co., and one from Banana River, taken on April 21, 

 1928, by Wedel (Peters, Bull Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 71, 1931, p. 

 309). There is a male in the Brandt Collection at the University 

 of Cincinnati received from Wedel, labeled Almirante Bay, March 

 21, 1939. Charles O. Handley, Jr., had report of one 7 kilometers 

 southwest of Changuinola, February 26, 1960, and received the skull 

 of one shot on the Rio Teribe in October 1962. 



In the Canal Zone these birds have been recorded occasionally on 

 Barro Colorado Island, and McLeannan collected one near Lion 

 Hill. The newspaper Star and Herald of Panama published an 

 account and a photograph of one killed by a hunter in the Bohio area 

 on September 14, 1951, that judged from the picture was a fully 

 grown immature individual. It was reported to have had a wing 

 spread of 6 feet 5 inches (nearly 2 meters). An older bird, brought 

 to Dr. Alejandro Mendez P., Director of the Museo Nacional in 

 Panama, was killed on November 11, 1951, by Adolfo Arias Espinosa 

 on the farm of Dr. Adolfo Arias near the Rio Pacora, beyond 

 Pacora. A sight record is of one flushed from a low perch in 

 dense brush near the Rio Camaron, west of La Campana, Panama, 

 March 9, 1951. Apparently it was hunting the marmosets that were 

 numerous in the area. H. von Wedel secured a male at Miel, on 

 the boundary at Puerto Obaldia, San Bias, June 15, 1934 (in the 

 Brandt Collection at the University of Cincinnati) . 



The harpy is reported to prey on the smaller monkeys and sloths, 

 to attack smaller deer, and also to capture macaws and other large 

 birds. The one taken near Armila, San Bias, shot by a hunter em- 

 ployed by C. O. Handley, Jr., had fur and claws of a young two-toed 

 sloth in its stomach. While the flight appears rather slow and heavy, 

 this perhaps is misleading, because of its large size and heavy body. 

 The feet and legs are muscular and heavy, far more so than in any 

 other of the eagles. 



Joseph Parker Norris, Jr. (Ool. Rec., vol. 7, 1927, pp. 25-26), 

 has published an account of two eggs in his collection obtained by 

 Rodolphe M. de Schauensee and James Bond at "Costanhal, near 

 the Rio Apehu" in Brazil in 1926. De Schauensee informs me that 

 the locality is near the Belem-Braganqa Railroad, about 85 kilometers 

 east of Belem. The nest was placed on the bottom limb next to 



