. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 34. HARPYHAMAETITS. 221 inner secondaries varied with white spots on the inner web ; entire sides of face, throat, and fore neck slaty black like the back; rest of under surface of body white, plentifully barred across with black, a little more narrowly on the thighs and under wing-coverts ; quills slaty black, the secondaries indistinctly banded with grey, the lower surface of quills paler grey, the inner web barred or mottled with white near the base ; tail greenish black, with a single band of white across the middle ; cere and orbits yellow ;
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 34. HARPYHAMAETITS. 221 inner secondaries varied with white spots on the inner web ; entire sides of face, throat, and fore neck slaty black like the back; rest of under surface of body white, plentifully barred across with black, a little more narrowly on the thighs and under wing-coverts ; quills slaty black, the secondaries indistinctly banded with grey, the lower surface of quills paler grey, the inner web barred or mottled with white near the base ; tail greenish black, with a single band of white across the middle ; cere and orbits yellow ; bill likewise pale yellow, black near base, and lead-coloured towards the tip ; feet yellow, claws black. Total length 23 inches, culmen 2-1, wing 15-2, tail 9, tarsus 3-8. { and Goclman.) AduU male. A little smaller than the female. Total length 22 inches, culmen 2, wing 14-9, tail 8-5, tarsus 3-7. {Mus. Sahin and Godman.) Hah. Costa Rica. 34. HARPYHALIAETUS* ^ Type. Harpyhaliaetus, Lafr. Mcv. Zool. 1842, p. 173 .. H. coronatus. Urubitomis, Verr. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 145 H. coronatus, var. [?] 5=H. Bill of Harpyhaliaetus coronatus (reduced). Range. South America, from ChUi and X. Patagonia as far north as Veragua in Central America. 1. Harpyhaliaetus coronatus. Aquila coronada, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 56 (1802) ; Hartl. hid. Azara, p. 1 (1847). Hai-pvia coronata, Vieill. N. Diet. xiv. p. 237 (1817). Falco" coronatus, Temm. PI. Col. i. pi. 234 (1823). Circaetus coronatus, Cuv. Regne An. i. p. 328 (1829); Less. Trait6, p. 48 (1831) ; Gray, Gen. B. p. 16 (1845); D'Orb. Vat/. Am. Merid., Ois. p. 75 (1847) ; Grat/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 14 (1809) ; Peh. Orn. Bras. pp. 4, 397 (1871). * In uniting Urubitomis to Harpyhaliaetus, I must state my inability to find any generic distinction between them. At present I beliere that there is only one species, but admit the possibility of two distinct kinds being differentiated, the grey bird {H. coronatus) having a more south
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