Crane hawk, Geranospiza caerulescens gracilis. Brazilian long-legged hawk of Prince Maxmilian, Falco wiedii braziliensis. From a specimen in the Museum of Prince Maximilian of Nieuwied. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1827.

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