^AtCON. 89 



B. — A forth er variety, or wliat appears to be such, has come 

 under my inspection — in this the bill is blackish ; cere and legs pale 

 yellow; general colour of the plumage chocolate brown. Head and 

 neck cream-colour, the feathers dashed do>vn the shafts with black 

 lines, and below this dusky in the middle ; sides of the head, below 

 the eye, pale tawny ; on the bend of the wing a dash of white ; the 

 under parts of the body, thighs, rump, and vent, ferruginous ; tail 

 dusky brownish green, rounded at the end, plain ; the wings, when 

 closed, reach almost to the end of it ; claws black. 



32 —HARPY FALCON. 



Falco rufus, Lid. Orn. i. 25. Gm. Lin. i. 266. Bris. i. 404. Id. 8vo. I 115. Dand. 



ii. 269. Shmc's Zool.vn. US. Tern. Man. d' Orn. p. 26. Id. Ed. ii. p. 70. 

 Fishgeyer, Brandgeyer, Frisclt. t. 7S. Bechst. Dents. \\. 61. 

 Harpaye, Biif.u 217. P/. e»/. 460. 

 Harpy Falcon, Gen. St/n. i. p. 51. 



LENGTH 20 in. ; bill black ; irides saffi'on-colour ; plumage in 

 general rufous, but the back, scapulars, greater coverts and rump 

 incline to brown, and in the rufous parts each feather lias a stripe of 

 brown down the middle; thighs rufous; tail ash-colour; greater 

 quills black, the lesser ash-colour, the three next the body brown ; 

 legs yellow. 



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