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with rufous brown; shins covered with feathers, 

 rufous and white, in rings : tail long, banded al- 

 ternately with four bands of black and grey: wings, 

 when closed, reaching half way down the tail: 

 toes yellow. The female is larger, and is destitute 

 of the crest. This species belongs rather to the 

 Buzzard or Falcon tribe than to the Eagles. 



SONNINI S EAGLE. 



[ Falco Sonnini. F.fuscus, pennis intus albis, remigibus rectrici- 

 busque albo-fasciatis. 

 Brown Eagle, with the feathers white within } those of the 



wings and tail barred with white. 

 Petit Aigle de la Guiane. Sonnini Buff. 



This small Eagle, according to Sonnini, has not 

 yet been described by any other naturalist. Its 

 length is but twenty-two inches, and the legs are 

 feathered down to the toes: the hind-head is 

 crested by feathers about an inch longer than the 

 rest: the wings, when closed, extend rather more 

 than half the length of the tail. The whole bird, 

 when at rest, appears of an uniform brown colour; 

 but when it spreads its wings and prepares for 

 motion, it appears every where varied with white, 

 the quills and tail being barred with that colour, 

 but the white is brighter beneath than above : the 

 feet are yellow. 



We must observe that this species is a very 

 different bird from the following one, which is 

 described under the same title by Mr. Mauduyt 



