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barred and spotted with white like the breast ; quills and tail below 

 regularly barred with black and ashy white. 



Hab. From Guatemala, in Central America, southwards to Brazil. 



a. Juv. St. South America. Purchased. 



b. Ad. St. Bogota. Purchased. 



c. Juv. St. Choctum, Vera Paz, 0. Salvin, Esq. [P.]. 



Guatemala. 



d. 2 imm. sk. Capim river. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [0.]. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Demerara. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Spizaetus bellicosus. 



Le Griffard, Levaill. Ois. cVAfr. i. p. 1, pi. 1 (1799) ; Sunclev. Krit. 



07n Levaill. p. 23 (1858). 

 Falco bellicosus, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 38 (1800, ex Levaill.^. 

 Falco armiger, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 57 (1809). 

 Aquila bellicosa, Dnmmit, Diet. Sci. Nat. i. p. 347 (1816) ; Grai/, Gen. 



B. i. p. 34 (184.5) ; Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. Aves, pi. 42 (1849) ; 



Strickl. Oni. Sijn. p. 61 (1855). 

 Aquila armiger, Cuv. Regne An. i. p. 315 (1817). 

 Eutolmaetus bellicosus, Blyth,J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 174 (1845). 

 Tolmaetus bellicosus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 5 (1846). 

 Spizaetus bellicosus, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 147 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 28 



(1850) ; HaHl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 5 (1857); Schl. Mm. P.-B. Astures, 



p. 57 (1862); Laijard, B. S. Afr. p. 13 (1867); Heugl. Orn. 



N. O.-Afr. i. p. 59 (18G9) ; Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 13 (1869) ; Schl. 



Revue Accipitr. p. 59 (1873). 

 Pseudaetus bellicosus, Gurney, in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 8 (1872). 



Young female. General colour pale brown, M-ith white margins to 

 the feathers of the upper surface, very distinct on the wing-coverts ; 

 feathers of the head and neck white, with a large terminal spot of 

 pale brown ; greater and primary wing-coverts and quills ashy 

 brown, broadly tipped with whitish, and barred across with darker 

 brown ; these bars distinct underneath, where the quills are ashy 

 grey from the base upwards towards the tips, which are blackish 

 brown ; upper taU-coverts pale brown, with darker brown bars ; 

 tail ashy brown, with bufiy white tips, and crossed with eleven 

 bands of darker brown ; under surface of body entirely huffy white, 

 with a few spots of dark brown on the chest and under wino-- 

 coverts. 



Adult female. Above dark sepia-brown, with faint edgings of paler 

 brown to the dorsal feathers and wing-coverts, the greater series of 

 which, as well as the scapulars, are indistinctly barred with ashy 

 brown ; quiUs dark brown, tipped with buffy white, and crossed with 

 blackish brown, the subterminal baud broader on the secondaries 

 the primaries externally shaded with ashy grey ; upper taU-coverts 

 brown, with faint bands of darker brown, and tipped %vith fulvous ; 

 tail dark brown, tipped with buffy white, and crossed with six bands 

 of ashy grey, the basal one often indistinct ; head dark brown, with 

 narrow whity brown margins, all the feathers white at base, showing 

 more conspicuously on the neck, where the margins to the feathers 

 are broader ; sides of face and throat white, with a few brown 

 streaks on the ear-coverts ; fore neck and chest uniform dark brown ; 



