SUPERB EAGLE. 



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manners, except that, like other birds of the genus, 

 it inhabits the vast forests of Guiana, where it is 

 not uncommon. It is distinguished by a pecu- 

 liarity of conformation which has escaped the 

 notice of Monsieur Mauduyt, one of its describers, 

 viz. a kind of pendent naked craw, like some of 

 the Vultures. Its length, from the tip of the bill 

 to that of the tail, is twenty-five inches, and the 

 tail exceeds the length of the wings, when closed, 

 by about a third part. The upper part of the 

 head, and the crest, which is composed of five or 

 six feathers, are brown : the back and wings brown, 

 with a few transverse tawny bars, and the tail is 

 alternately barred above with black and pale 

 brown: the sides of the neck are tawny; the throat 

 and breast white, the abdomen white, marked 

 with round and oblong black spots, disposed in 

 such a manner as to form transverse stripes, inter- 

 rupted by the white ground-colour : the feathers of 

 the thighs and legs are white, striped with black. 



A species allied to the above is described and 

 figured in Levaillant's African Birds, under the 

 name of A ut our huppc, and Monsieur Daudin has 

 called it Falco ornatus; but Monsieur Sonnini is 

 doubtful as to the identity of species in these birds; 

 since the Autour huppe of Levaillant has the crest 

 black and white ; the feathers of the head black, 

 the back of the neck of a deep rufous colour, and 

 the fore part of a reddish white, a black line, which 

 passes from the corners of the mouth, separating 

 the rufous colour of the nape from the white of 

 the throat; while all the fore part of the body is 



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