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CARACCA EAGLE. 



Falco Caracca. F, capite cristato, dorso alls gulaque nigris, 

 abdomine albo, rectricibus fasciis quatuor cinereis. Lath, 

 ind. orn. 



Eagle with crested head^ back, wings, and throat black, ab- 

 domen white, and tail marked by four ash-coloured bands. 

 Crested Falcon. Dillons travels through Spain, p. 80. pi. 3. 

 Caracca Falcon. Lath, synops. 



Size of a Turkey: the back, wings, and throat 

 are black; the belly white, and the tail marked 

 by four parallel ash- coloured stripes or bands : 

 the bill is strongly hooked, and the feathers of the 

 head are elevated at pleasure in the form of a 

 crest. 



Described in Dillon's travels through Spaiii. It 

 was kept in the Royal Menagerie at the Palace of 

 Buon Retiro at Madrid. 



SUPERB EAGLE. 



Falco superbus. F. fuscus, subfulvo varius, occipite cristafo, 



nucha fulva^ abdomine albo nigro maculato. 

 Brown Eagle, with subfulvous variegations, crested hind-head, 



fulvous nape, and w^hite abdomen spotted with black. 

 L'Aigle moyen de la Guiane. Sonnini Buff. Mauduyt encycL 



meth. ? 



Falco ornatus,? Daudin ois. 



Autour huppe. ? Levaill. ois. Afr. No. 26. 



Thls bird, says Monsieur Sonnini, I have seen in 

 its native country, but am unacquainted with its 



