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two occur in Tropical America, both of them being well-known in our region. Two 

 of the remaining eight are found in Africa ; the other six are Asiatic, and are spread 

 from India and Ceylon to Borneo, Java, Celebes, and to Waigiou in the Moluccas. 



1. Spizaetus ornatus. 



Falco ornatus, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 77 '. 



Spizaetus ornatus, Scl. P. Z.S. 1857, p. 201 '; 1859, p. 389'; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 52*; Scl. & 



Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 215"; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 369°; Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 158'; 1870, p. 215"; 



Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 132°; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 367"; Nutting, Pr. U. S. 



Nat. Mus. V. p. 404 " ; vi. p. 408 '' ; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 167 " ; Zeledon, 



Ad. Mas. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 126"; Cherrie, Auk, 1892, p. 328"; Underwood, Ibis, 



1896, p. 446". 

 Falco mauduyti, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 73 ". 

 Spizaetus mauduyti, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. i. p. 262"; Lawr. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, 



p. 38"; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 236". 



Supra niger, crista elongata, nigra, cervicis lateribus et eervice postica rufis ; alia extus fuscis, nigro indisfcincte 

 fasciatis, tectricibus minoribus albo maculatis : subtus albus, gutture striis nigris marginato, abdomine 

 toto nigro transfasciato, tibiis et tarsis plumosis quoque fasciis angustiorihus notatis ; subalaribus albis, 

 nigro guttatis ; remigibus subtus griseo-albidis, nigro fasciatis ; cauda nigra, fusco terminata et fasciis 

 tribus fuscis ornata ; rostro nigro, digitis flavis ; eera lorisque viridi-flavis ; iride aurantiaca. (Descr. 

 maris ex Chimalapa, Tehuantepec, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 



5 mari similis, sad major. 



Juv. capite, eervice et oorpore toto subtus lactescenti-albis ; crista nigra ; h3'pochondriis nigro maculatis ; tibiis 

 et tarsis plumosis albis, nigro fasciatis. (Descr. exempl. ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Hob. Mexico, Jalapa [Salle ^), Mirador, Uvero [Sumichrast ^^), Actopam, Barra de 

 Santa Ana [Ferrari-Perez ^^), Teotalcingo [Boucard ^), Cacoprieto, Santa Efigenia ^^ ^o 

 [Sumichrast), Chimalapa [Richardson) ; British Honduras, Belize [Blancaneau-x) ; 

 Guatemala, Coban [Mus. Brit.^^), Cahabon [Skinner^), Choctum, Costa Grande 

 [0. S. & F. D. G.) ; Honduras, Puerto Caballo [Leyland *) ; Nicaragua, Los 

 Sabalos [Nutting ^^), San Emilio, Lake of Nicaragua [Richardson) ; Costa Rica, 

 Miravalles [Underwood i^). La Palma, Juan [v. Frantzius i", Zeledon », Nutting "), 

 Orosi [v. Frantzius^^), San Isidro, San Vicente, Jimenez [Underwood), San Jose 

 [Carmiol^, Zeledon ^\ Cherrie ^^); Panama, Cordillera de Tole ^ Calovevora » 

 [E. Arce), Lion Hill [M'Leannan^). — South America, from Colombia to Guiana 

 and Brazil ^^. 



This Crested Eagle is one of the most beautiful of Neotropical Birds of Prey, and is 

 found throughout the whole of Central America. Sumichrast i9 says that it is common 

 in the large forests of the eastern coast of Mexico, but occurs very rarely in the plains 

 of the Pacific, where probably only isolated specimens are met with. In Guatemala 

 we procured it at Choctum and in the Costa Grande, and many were sent by Skinner 

 from the districts of Vera Paz. Leyland reports it as rare in Honduras, and it appears 

 to be far less plentiful in Nicaragua than in Costa Rica, where it has been obtained 



