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Wing ad. 461, tail 395, crest (longest 

 feather) 115 mm. ; crown and sides of head 

 dark slate ; above blackish-brown ; wing- 

 coverts more conspicuously barred with 

 white ; tail with 4 bands of white, mottled 

 and tinged with brownish grey ; throat and 

 upper breast blackish ; below closely barred 

 with black and white. 



Gen. XLIV. HARPIA Vieill. (Anal. Nouv. Orn. 1816, p. 24). 

 Tjrpe by monotypy Vultur harpyia L. 



Larger, length about 38 in. ; bill robust, culmen 

 much curved ; feet very powerful ; tarsus almost 

 entirely bare, the scutallae rough and irregular ; 

 claws very large and strong ; head with broad 

 depressed crest, erectile. 



178. Harpia harpvja (Linn.) S.N., i., 

 (1758). [Mexico.] 

 Great Harpy Eagle. 



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From Mexico S. 

 to Paraguay, 

 BoUvia, and 

 Brazil. 



Wing $ 530-565, ? 600 mm. ; ad. head, neck 

 and throat ashy-grey ; above and chest 

 brownish black ; below white ; tail black 

 with 4 ashy bands ; thighs barred black ; 

 Immature : above, also crest and chest 

 patch, ashy-grey ; tail irregularly barred 

 with black ; head, neck and under-parts 

 white. 



Gen. XLV. HARPYOPSIS Salvad. (1875). 

 Type by orig. desig. H. novcs-guinece Salvad. 



Size large, length about 34 in. 

 tail long and; rounded. 



head crested ; 



179. Harpyopsis novcB-gmnece Salvad., Ann. S.E. New 

 Mus. Civ. Genov., vii., p. 682 (1875). Guinea. 

 [Andai, Arfak Penms.] 

 New Guinea Hawk-Eagle. 



