42 CLASS AVES. 



Streaked Caracar a. Gymnops strigillatus, Spix. t. 4. a. 



Bi'own ; auricular spot blackish ; side of the neck 

 ferruginous ; chest and belly ferruginous ; crown 

 streaked ; wing and centre of tail dirty white, spotted 

 and banded with black. Brazils. 



Chimachima Falcon. F. degener, Illig. -F. croto- 

 phagus, Pr. Max. 



White ; crown streaked with brown ; back and wings 

 black ; tail base, with seven black bands, (beneath 

 narrower,) end black ; bill whitish ; cera naked ; 

 feet lead-coloured. Length seventeen inches, tail 

 eight inches, tarsi two inches one-third. When young 

 dirty white ; chest brown-spotted ; back and wings 

 sooty. Chimachina of Azara, ii. 6. 



The Hakpies, or Fisher Eagles with short wings. 

 (Harpyia, Cuv.) 



Are also proper to America^ and have the tarsi very 

 thick, strong, reticulated, and are one half only fea- 

 thered, like the fisher eagles, properly so called, from 

 which they differ only in the shortness of their wings ; 

 their beak and talons are even stronger than those of 

 any other tribe. 



The Great Harpy of America^ or Crested Vidture, Lath. : 

 F. destructor of Daudin ; the Grand Aigle de la Guiane 

 of Mauduit ; probably, the F. harpyia, and the F. cris- 

 tatus of Gmel. ; certainly the Yzguautzli of Fernandes, 

 who exaggerates its size in comparing it to a sheep ; the 

 Vultur cristatus of Jacquin ; and, consequently, the F. 

 Jacquini of Gm. ; F. harpyia and imperialis of Shaw ; 



Is one of those birds which has the most terrible claws 

 and beak. Its size is above that of the common 



