424 Captain P. P. King on the Animals 



2. 3. Caraqaras also.— These appear to me to be young birds 

 of a species wliich you showed me in your collection before 1 left 

 England, and which has been figured by M. Spix, I forget under 

 what name.* 



4. A small Eagle, which I consider new. — Its characters are as 

 follows. 



' IlALIiEETUS EUyTllRONOTUS. 



Hal. capite alisque fusco-griseis ; dorso scupularibusque rujis, 

 corpore caudaque subtus albis, fasciis fiiscis gracilibus Icviter 

 nofutis, hue fascia lata prope aptcem nigra. 



The head of this beautiful species is a dark fuscous grey, the 

 feathers being white at their base, and slightly marked in the 

 middle with narrow fuscous strice. The wings are of the same 

 colour as the head, the quills being darker ; the wing coverts and 

 secondary quill feathers are slightly fasciated with fuscous; the 

 inner webs of the primaries are also fasciated at the base, while 

 some of the external ones are white at the same place. The 'under 

 wing coverts are white, marked with slender fasciae. The chin, 

 throat, and breast are pare white ; the abdomen white fasciated 

 with faint slender fuscous bars. The nape, back, and scapulars 

 are of a fine rufous colour, some of the feathers of the nape and 

 the lower scapulars being slightly marked with dark sfrite : the 

 rufous colour extends in front to the shoulders, and appears in 

 spots partially under the wing on the sides of the abdomen. The 

 uropjjgium is marked with a few fuscous blotches above, and trans- 

 verse lines near the tail. The tail is white, faintly barred with 

 slender fascias above, and still more faintly beneath, and has a 

 black /ascm, near an inch and a quarter broad, situated near the 

 apex. The bill is black at the apex^ yellowish towards the base. 



* The specimens, I agree witli Capt. King, seem to be the young of Milvngo 

 ochrocephala of Spix, (Nov. Sp. Av. Bras. p. 5,) figured also by SirW. Jardine 

 and Mr. Selby in the 2d plate of thuir " Illustrations of Ornithology;" the 

 rudiments of the various markings of the adult birds of that species being dis- 

 cernible in tliem. The difference between them accords generally with that 

 which disiinguislies tiie young bird iVom tlie adult almost universally among 

 th« Falconida:. — Ed. 



