33. UHUfllTINGA. ^i3 



Eamie. South America, from Peru, Southeru Brazil, Paraguay, and 

 Bolivia, northwards throughout the whole continent, and ranging 

 into Central America as far north as Mexico. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Breast black. ^ 



rt'. Upper taiUcoverts white zonura, p. 2hi. 



h'. Upper tail-coverts black, with a very narrow 



white terminal edging anthracma, p. 21&. 



b. Breast slaty grey, like back. _ 



c'. Under wing-coverts slaty snhistncea, P- ^^o- 



d. Under wing-coverts white plumbea, p. 21b. 



c. Breast white. 



e'. Upper tail-coverts pure white. 



a". Tail black, with white tip albtcollis, p. 21b. 



b". Tail white, with black subterminal band . ghiesbrechti, p. 217. 

 /'. Upper tail-coverts black or slaty grey, with 

 white spots or bars. 



c". Tail pure white, black at base palliata, p. 218. 



d''. Tail with a black terminal or subterminal 

 I'aid. 



a'". Primaries not banded underneath lacermdata, p. .iio. 



b'". Primaries banded underneath. 

 a"". Ear-coverts white. 



aa. Tail with one median white band 



only ; head blackish kaupi, p. 219. 



bb. Tail with two bands of white; 



head white, streaked with black . melanops, p. 220. 

 b"". Ear-coverts slaty grey, Hke the head semiplumbea, p. 220. 

 d. Breast white, everywhere barred with slaty 



black princeps, p. 220. 



1. Uruhitinga zonura. 



L'Aigle du Br^sil, Briss. Orn. i. p. 445 (1760). 



Brasilian Eagle, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 41 (1781). 



Falco urubitinga, Gm. S. N. i. p. 265 (1788) ; Temm. PL Col. i. 



pi. 55 (1825). 

 Gavilan mixto choiTeado, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 88 (1802) ; Hartl. Ind. 



Azara, p. 2 (1847). 

 Gavilan mixto pintado, Azara, t. c. p. 92 (1802) ; Hartl. t. c. p. 2 



(1847). 

 Gavilan mixto negro, Azara, t. c. p. 96 (1802) ; Harti. t. c. p. J 



(1847). 

 Falco zonurus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 62 (1809). 

 Pandion fulvus, Vieill. N. Diet. iii. p. 163 (1816). 

 Spizaetus niger, Vieill. op. cit. xxxii. p. 57 (1819). 

 Spizaetus ater, Vieill. torn. cit. p. 58 (1819). 

 Aquila urubitinga, Spix, Av. Bras. i. pi. 1 b (1824). 

 Aquila picta, Spix, torn. cit. pi. 1 c (1824). 

 Morphnus urubitinga, Cuv. Migne An. i. p. 330 (1829) ; UOrb. Voy. 



Am. Merid., Ois. p. 84 (1847) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 15, pi. 7. fig. 6 



(1845). 

 Karpyia urubitinga, Sw. Classif. B. ii. p. 208 (1837). 

 Hypomorphnus urubitinga, Cab. iSj- Tschtidi, Arch. f. Naturg. 1844, 



