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Gen. XLII. THRASAETUS Gray (1837 



Larger ; bill robust, culmen 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-patch, ashy grey ; tail irregularly 

 barred with black ; head, neck and under- 

 parts white.* 



175. Thrasaetus harpyia (Linn.) S.N.,, i., p. 86 Paraguay 

 (1758) [Mexico]. and Brazil; 

 Great Harpy Eagle. N. to Mexico. 



Gen. XLIII. HARPYOPSLS Salvad. (1875). 



Size large ; head crested ; tail long and rounded. 



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

 dusky brown ; below dirty Avhite ; chest 

 greyish : tail with 6 indistinct transverse 

 bands. 



176. Harjiyopsis novce-guince Salvad., Ann. Mus. S.E. New 

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

 New Guinea Hawk-Eagle. 



SUB. FAM. IV. GYPAETINiE. 



Gen. XLIV. GYPAETUS Storr (1784). 



Nostrils hidden by stiff bristles : chin \\'\\\\ a long tuft of blacl^ 

 ])ristles ; tarsus more or less feathered. 



Size large : length 41 in. ; wing 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 with ochraceous 

 brown ; below tawiij' ; tarsus feathered to 

 the toes. 



177. Gypaetus harbatus grandis Storr, Alpen- Spain, 



reise vom Jahr 1781, p. 69 (1784 ) [Switzer- Alps and S.E. 

 land.] Europe, 



Bearded Vulture. Central Asia, 



Himalayas. 



N. China. 



* Immature birds are black above and on chest ; head and neck ashy-grey ; 

 below white. 



