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Aberdeen, and that the account he got with it 
stated, that it had been killed upon the coast by 
the captain of a vessel about to enter that port.” 
The bird proved to be an adult species of Tem- 
minek’s Crested Spizaetus, and the description 
taken at the time was, — “ The bill is black, the 
cere of a yellowish green colour, the naked space 
between the bill and the eyes greenish black ; the 
forehead, throat, sides of the neck, and whole of 
the under parts, pure white ; the legs are long, 
and the tarsi thickly clothed with white feathers ; 
the crown of the head and nape, yellowish brown, 
mixed with amber brown ; from the occiput springs 
six or eight elongated dark brown feathers, form- 
ing a pendent crest ; the whole of the upper parts 
of the body are of a dark umber brown, each 
feather with a paler margin ; the ridge of the 
wings is white ; the tail long, of a deep clove 
brown colour, with seven narrow black bars, the 
tip white; the feet are yellow, the toes reticu- 
lated as far as the last phalange, and are armed 
with powerful sharp and crooked claws, particu- 
larly those of the interior and hind toes ; length, 
about twenty inches ; the wings, when closed, 
appear to reach about one-half the length of the 
tail ; the first quill is narrow and short, the fourth 
and fifth the largest in the wing.” 
This form, so far as we are aware, is Asiatic 
and South American. The bird now described is 
