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Aberdeen, and that the account he got with it 

 stated, that it had been killed upon the coast by 

 the captain of a vessel about to enter that port." 

 The bird proved to be an adult species of Tem- 

 minck's Crested Spizaetus, and the description 

 taken at the time was, " The bill is black, the 

 cere of a yellowish green colour, the naked space 

 between the bill and the eyes greenish black ; the 

 forehead, throat, sides of the neck, and whole of 

 the under parts, pure white ; the legs are long, 

 and the tarsi thickly clothed with white feathers ; 

 the crown of the head and nape, yellowish brown, 

 mixed with amber brown ; from the occiput springs 

 six or eight elongated dark brown feathers, form- 

 ing a pendent crest ; the whole of the upper parts 

 of the body are of a dark umber brown, each 

 feather with a paler margin ; the ridge of the 

 wings is white ; the tail long, of a deep clove 

 brown colour, with seven narrow black bars, the 

 tip white ; the feet are yellow, the toes reticu- 

 lated as far as the last phalange, and are armed 

 with powerful sharp and crooked claws, particu- 

 larly those of the interior and hind toes ; length, 

 about twenty inches ; the wings, when closed, 

 appear to reach about one-half the length of the 

 tail ; the first quill is narrow and short, the fourth 

 and fifth the largest in the wing." 



This form, so far as we are aware, is Asiatic 

 and South American. The bird now described is 



