103 



Gen. XLII. URUBITORNIS Verr. (P.Z.S. 1856, p. 145) 

 Type by orig. desig. Circaetus solitarius Tsch. 



Head with short crest (50 mm.). 



175. Urubitornis solitarius (Tsch.), Arch. f. Chili, Peru, 



Naturg. 1844, p. 264. [Chauchamayo, Ecuador, 



Peru.] Colombia. 

 Solitary Harpy. 



Wing ad. 525, tail 240, culmen 65 mm. ; 

 much darker than H. coronatus ; general 

 colour bluish-black, shaded with chocolate ; 

 tail with median white band 35 mm. wide. 



Gen. XLIII. MORPHNUS Dumont (Diet. Sci. Nat. i. Supp., 



p. 88, 1816). 



Type by subs, desig. (Chubb 1916) Falco guianensis Daud. 



Size similar, length about 36 in. ; head crested ; 

 tail long, more than four times as long as tarsus ; 

 toes very short ; claws large. 



176. Morphnus guianensis (Daud.), Traite, ii., Honduras, 

 p. 78 (1800). [Cayenne.] Panama, 



Guiana Crested Eagle. Colombia, 



Guiana, 

 Wing 3 445-460 mm. ; wing 9 488-500, E. Brazil, 

 tail 430 mm. ; above brownish black ; head E. Peru, 

 and neck greyish-brown ; wings barred Paraguay, 

 with lighter ashy-brown ; tail black, tipped 

 with whitish and with from 3 to 5 bands of 

 ashy-brown ; chest ashy-brown ; below 

 white barred with rufous or brown. 



177. Morphnus tceniatus Gurney, 

 p. 176, pi. iii. [Sarayacu.] 

 Ecuadorian Crested Eagle. 



Ibis, 1879, Ecuador. 



