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eagle. Its plumage is ashy about the head and neck ; 

 blackish brown on the mantle and sides of the breast ; 

 whitish underneath, and with brown bars on the 

 thighs ; some elongated feathers form a black crest 

 behind the head. 



It is said to be so strong as to have sometimes cleft 

 the skulls of men with a blow of the beak. The sloths 

 form its common food, and it sometimes carries off 

 young fawns. 



Booted Harpy. H. Braccata, Spix. t. 3. 



Black ; tarsi densely feathered, dotted with white ; 

 rump white-spotted ; tall long ; four gray banded. 



Vlelllot also describes as a species H. coronata ; 

 and H. ornata of Spix Is the Crested Goshawk. 



The Eagle Hawks (Morphnus, Cuv.) 

 SpizaetuSi Vlelllot, and Aquila, Spix. 



Have the wings shorter than the tail, like the last ; 

 but their long and spare tarsi and weak toes distin- 

 guish these from them. Some have the tarsi elevated, 

 naked and shielded. 



The Tufted Eagle of Guiana; Aigle autour huppe (F. 

 Guiannensis., Daud.) ; Petit Aigle de la Guiane, Maud. 



In the colours and the crest is extremely like the 

 great fisher-eagle of the same country, but it is less ; 

 but its elevated, naked and shielded tarsi sufficiently 

 distinguish it ; the mantle is blackish, sometimes 

 varied with deep grey ; the belly white, with yellow 

 claws, more or less marked ; the head and neck 



