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mankind; but its principal food consists of Monkies, 

 and particularly those called Guaribas, which it 

 kills with its beak, and devours in an instant with 

 extraordinary voracity. Its general residence is 

 on lofty mountains, and it builds its nest on the 

 highest trees, employing for their construction the 

 bones of the animals it has slaughtered, and some 

 dry branches of trees, which it binds together 

 with the stems of climbers. It is said to lay two 

 or three eggs, which are white, spotted with red- 

 dish-brown. It is chiefly found about the borders 

 of the river Amazon. Many virtues are attributed 

 to its burnt feathers. Pens are made of its quills, 

 and whistles of its claws. 



Such is the account given by Don Laurent 

 Alvarez Roxo de Postflitz, Grand Chanter of the 

 cathedral of Para, and correspondent of the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences at Paris. 



GRIFFARD EAGLE, 



Falco Armiger. F. grisco-fuscus, subtus alhus, occipite cristato } 

 temigibus secondariis cavdaque albido-fusciatis. 



Grey-brown Eagle, white beneath, with the h'nd-head crested, 

 and the smaller wing- feathers and tail crossed with whitish 

 bars. 



Le Griffard. VailL Ois. Afr. No. 1 . Sonnini Bvff. 



Nearly the size of the Golden Eagle: colour 

 grey-brown above; white beneath: head paler 

 than the rest of the upper parts, the tips of the 

 feathers alone being coloured, and those of the 



