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CASSEEL'S BOOK OF BIRDS. 



THE URUTAURANA. 

 The Urutaurana (Ptcrnitra tyrannus), the most stately member of this group, is twenty-six 

 inches in length and fifty in breadth ; the wing measures sixteen and the tail fourteen inches ; the 

 female is two inches longer and three or four inches broader than her mate. In this species, the 

 head, throat, nape, and upper part of the breast are black ; the plumage of the back is an uniform 

 blackish brown, that of the lower portions of the body of the same hue, marked with white ; the 



THE TUFTED eagle (Lophoaetos occipitalis). 



wing-feathers are ornamented with five or six white lines ; the tail-feathers have similar markings, and 

 are bordered with white, so that when seen from above they appear of a greyish brown, and on the 

 under side whitish grey ; the plumage upon the legs and feet is also mottled with white. The young 

 birds are brown or greyish brown, the feathers upon the back being edged with a lighter shade ; the 

 throat is whitish, the breast yellowish brown, marked with dark spots; the eye orange colour, the 

 beak greyish black ; the cere greyish yellow, and the feet pale yellow. 



The Urutaurana inhabits the forests in the interior of Brazil, but is never met with in large 



