+ "238. AVES. 
it is said to have cleft a man’ s skull with its beak; its ordinary 
food is the Sloth, and it frequently carries off es 6 
Moruenvs, Cuv.(1) _ ” # 
The Morphni, like the preceding, have wings shorter ‘than the 
tail; but their elevated and slender tarsi compel us to separate 
them. . 
Some of them have naked and scutellated tarsi. nd ‘ 
F. guianensis, Daud.; Petit Aigle de la Guiane, Maud. Encyc. 
It has singular Hesdntblditee § in colour and crest to the Great 
Fisher Eagle of the same country ; but it is not solarge, and its 
naked and scutellated tarsi sufficiently distinguish it ; the man- 
tle is blackish, sometimes variegated with a deep grey ; abdo- 
men white, undulated more or less strongly with fawn colour ; 
head and neck sometimes grey, and sometimes white ; the occi- 
pital tuft, long and blackish. 
the tail, white. When young, brown Royals fawn coloured, sprin-» 
kled with brown beneath (Col. 55). This beautiful bird hunts 
on inundated grounds.(2) ) 
Others have elevated tarsi feathered throughout. 
F. occipitalis, Daud. ; 3 Huppart, Vaill. Afr. LS ii; Bruce, 
Abyss. pl. xxxil. As large as a Crow; black; a long crest or 
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tuft pendent from the occiput; the tarsi, borders of the wings, — 
and of the bands under the tail, whitish. Throughout all Africa.” 
F. ornatus, Daud.;(3) F. superbus and coronatus, Sh.; Crested 
Goshawk, Vaill. Afric. I, xxvi; Sptzaetus ornatus, Vieillot, 
Galer. 21; Aigle moyen de la Guiane, Maud. Encyclop.; Booted 
Sparrowhawk, Azz. Calotte, and crests black; sides of the 
neck of a bright red ; mantle black, variegated with grey, un- 
dulated with white ; above, white; flanks, thighs, and tarsi 
striped with black ; tail, black, with four grey bands. A beau- 
tiful bird of South America, varying from black and white to 
a deep brown.(4) 
(1) Morphnus, the Greek name for an undetermined bird of prey. It is from my 
Morphnus that Vieillot has made his Spizaetes. 
(2) The Filol longipes, Mlig.; the 4g. picta, Spix, 1, appear to me to be young 
Urubitingez—Add the Aigle-autour moucheté, (4g. maculosa,) Veill. Amer. pl. iii, 
bis;—the Panema, (Aq. milvoydes) Spix, Id. ' 
(3) This is certainly the Urutaurana of Maregrave; but that author describes it 
as being of the size of an Eagle, which isa#4east one-third too large. The Har- 
pyia braccata, Spix, Ul, is the young bird of the same species. 
(4) Add here, of crested species, the-blanchard, yeu Afr. 3, acs albescens, Sh.); 
F. urubitinga, L.; Spix, 1. Black ; no crest; rump and base of 
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