236 FALCON. 



Inhabits Guiana, is a powerful species, said to prey on the sloth, 

 and other quadrupeds, as well as pheasants. M. Daudin thinks it 

 much allied to the Harpy Eagle. 



I tind a similar bird among some drawings, with the crest com- 

 posed of six or eight feathers in pairs, the lower pair longest, and 

 standing a good way fi'om the neck, the ends of all black ; back and 

 wings dark brown, mottled with pale on the latter ; beneath dirty 

 yellowish white, with transverse yellow brown marks, mostly on tlie 

 thighs ; tail long, dusky brown, crossed with three broad, brownish 

 yellow, or clay-coloured bands, tip fringed w'ith. white ; legs yellow 

 brown, smooth ; the wings reach one-third on the tail. 



174.— BRAZILIAN EAGLE. 



Falco Urubitinga, /nrf. Orn, 1. p. 22. Gm. Lin. \. 265. Raii, y>. S. Will. p. 32. Buf. 



i. 141; Daud. ii. p. 57. Shaiv's Zool. vii. p. 63. 

 Aquila braziliensis, Bris.]. 445. Jrf. 8vo. i. 128. 

 Brazilian Eagle, Gen.Syn.\. p. 41. Will. Engl. p. 64, 



SIZE of a young goose; length 21|^in. ; breadth 50 in. Bill 

 thick and black ; cere yellowish ; eyes large, and rufous grey ; 

 plumage in general brown ; wings blackish, mixed with cinereous ; 

 tail white for two-thirds of the length, then black, with the tip 

 white ; legs naked, yellow. 



Inhabits Brazil. M. Daudin mentions another bird, which is 

 in the 3Iuseum, at Paris, called Urubitinga. This is about the size 

 of an Osprey ; space between the bill and eye naked, covered only 

 with a few bristles ; bill horn-colour; plumage black; the feathers 



