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FALCONIDiE. 



Sp, 6. Mo. maculosus. 



Mo. niger gula pectoreque albis, nigro maculatis; ahdomine nigro 



maculis albis ; crissojfemoribusquejerrugineis. 

 Black Morphnus with the throat and breast white, spotted with 



black J the abdomen black spotted witfi white ; the vent and 



thighs rust-coloured. , 

 Aquila maculosa. Vieil. Ois. de VAmer. Sept, ^* bis. 



Inhabits Guiana and Mexico : feeds on fish : 

 length two feet : beak blue : irides yellow : cere and 

 lore blue : head, neck, and back black : chin, throat, 

 and breast white : each feather streaked with black : 

 belly black, marked with round spots of white : vent 

 and thighs rust-colour, the middle of the feathers 

 darkest : rump and upper tail-feathers white, striped 

 across with black : quills and tail lead-colour above, 

 and light bluish-grey beneath, with three broad dark 

 black bands on both surfaces of the latter, one of 

 them near the tip ; the quills have also seven or eight 

 black bands, and black ends : legs orange. 



Sp. 7. Mo? Manduyti. 



Falco Manduyti. Shavo, v. vii. p. 66. — Cayenne. 

 Sp. 8. Mo? Sonnini. 



Falco Sonnini. Shaxjo, v. vii. p. 67. — Guiana. 

 Sp. 9. Mo? Linnseetus. 



Mo ? JuscuSj Cauda subtus praeter apicem albidO'Cinered, tarsis 

 usque ad extremitatem dense plumosis. 



Brown Morphnus? with the tail beneath, except the. tip, whitish- 

 ash. 



Falco Linnseetus. Zmw. Traw^. (Horsf.) v. xiii. jo. 138. Temm, 

 PI. Col. 134. 



Inhabits Java. Length two feet : the entire plu- 

 mage of the body, with the wings and the tail, is of a 

 bister brown, slightly tinged with purple : the top of 



