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Show 238 AVES. it is said to have cleft a man's skull wit? its beak; its ord'inary food is the Sloth, and it frequently carr1es off Fawns. MoRHPNus, Cuv.(1) The Morpbni, like the preceding, have. wings shorter than the tail; but their elevated and slender tars1 compel us to separate ili~· . Some of them have naked and scutellated tarsi. F. guianensis, Daud.; Petit .Jligle de la Guiane, Maud. Encyc. It has singular resemblance in colour and crest to the Great Fisher Eagle of the same country; but it is not so large, and its naked and scutellated tarsi suiflciently distinguish it; the man· tie is blackish, sometimes variegated with a deep grey ; abdo· men white, undulated more or less strongly with fawn colour; head and neck sometimes grey, and sometimes white; the occi· pital tuft, long and blackish. F. urubitinga, L.; Spix, I. Black ; no crest; rump and base of the tail, white. When young, brown above; fawn coloured, sprin· kled with brown beneath (Col. 55). This beautiful bird hunts on inundated grounds.(2) Others have elevated tarsi feathered throughout. F. occipitalis, Daud.; Huppart, Vaill. Afr. I, ii; Bruce, Abyss. pl. xxxii. As large as a Crow ; black; a long crest or tuft pendent from the occiput; the tarsi, borders of the wings, and of the bands under the tail, whitish. Throughout all Africa. F. ornatus, Daud.;(3) F. superbus and coronatus, Sh.; Crested Goshawk, Vaill. Afric. I, xxvi; Spizaetus ornatus, Vieillot, Galer. 21 ; .!ligle moyen de la Guiane, Maud. Encyclop.; Booted Sparrowlwwk, Azz. Calotte, and crests black ; sides of the neck of a bright red ; mantle black, variegated with grey, un· dulated with white ; above, white ; flanks, thighs, and tarsi striped with black; tail, black, with four grey bands. A beau· tiful bird of South America, varying from black and white to a deep brown.( 4) (1) Morpltnus, the Greek name for an undetermined bird of prey. It is from my Morphnus that Vieillot has made his Spizaetes. (2) The Filollongipes, Illig.; the .flq. picta, Spix, I, appear to me to be you~? Urubitingre.-Add the .!ligle-autour mouchete, (.llq. maculosa,) Veill. Amer. pl. IU, bis;-the Panema, (.!lq. milvoi'des) Spix, Id. . . ( 3) This is certainly the Urutaurana of Marc grave; but that author deswbes 11 as being of the size of an Eagle, which is at least one-third too large. The Har· ~yia braccata, Spix, III, is the young bird of the same species. )· ( 4) Add here, of crested species, the blanchard, Vaill. Afr. 3, (F. albescens, ~h.' ACCIPITRES. 239 Finally, America produces birds with beaks 8• 'I d . 1m1 ar to the pre-ce mg ones; very short reticulated tarsi half covered · th .i' · f · WI 1eathers m ront; wltlgs shorter than the tail and whose m t d' · · . h . • • . ' os 1stmgu1shtng c aracter consis.t s m their nostrils ' which res em bl e fi ssures. We may form them mto a small tribe under the nam f c (I) Such is e 0 YMINnxs, Cuv. F. Ca!(ennensis, Gm.; Le Petit .llutour de Cayenne Buff E I 473; Splx, VIII. It has another peculiar characte; in a ~m:li tooth at the spot where the beak curves. The adult · h' W'i t h a bl • h b IS W lte, U.I S - . lack mantle' cinereous head , and 1l' our w h.l te b ands on the tail; lD the young bird the mantle is variegated with brown and red, and the head is white, with some black spots.(2) AsTuR, Bechst.-DAEDELioN, Savig. The Goshawks, which form the second division of the I bl J'ke th I t th 'b fE gno es, 1 e as ree tr1 es o agles, have wings shorter than th · t 'I· b t th . b k . d .i'. elr ai ' u e1r ea Is curve 1rom its base, as in all those which are to follow. We particularly designate as GosHAWKS those which have rather short and scutellated tarsi. ~ palumbarius, L.; Enl. 418 and 461; and the young F. gallinanus, Gm. Enl. 425; and Frisch, LXXII; Naum. 17 and 18.(3) (The Common Goshawk.) The only species in France· brown above, with white eye-brows; white beueath • the adul: transversely striped with brown; longitudinally sprlnkled when !ou~g; five browner bands on the tail. It e~uals the Gerfalcon m Size, but not in courage; always stooping obliquely upon its prey. Falconers, however, sometimes use it for the weaker kinds of game. Common in hills and low mountains. Among foreign Goshawks, we may remark that of New Holland, Falco Novce Hollandice, White, Voy. p. 250, which is very often entirely of a snow white; but it seems that it is a va- :tF.h. tytrannus, Pr. Max. Col. 73 ; L' .flutour cristatelle, Temm. Col. 285: of spe~ies Falcoo ul ' crests' l' jJu t our nev· seux, Temm. Col. 127;-l'.fl.ut. incolore, Id. ib. 134 or meatus, Horsf. Java. ' ((~)) ;ymindis, the Greek name for an undetermined bird of prey. }]U8 am not sure wheth et· 1' t 1· s no t a young Cymm· d1·s that I·S represented in the the e mantelee (F. u· t 'f ) 1 . 8 , ' • pa ~a us, em. Co · 204, very different from that which has ame .French name, Col. 437. Add the F. Ita t Ill' 1 uncinatre8, ld .Colma us, Ig. Co , 61 a~d 231, F. leucopygus, Spix, II, the F. N. B TI · : 1U3, 104, 105. These bu·ds vary greatly in colour with age. lllon Bu· · le Gottzngen Eagl (F. l · ~ 1 e, · g aucupzs, J.,ferrem. Beytr. II, pl. vii ) is a Com-( zzat·' Tl WI< . ' 3) AI '· le tzte Eagle (F. albus, Sh.; John White, Voy.) is a Goshawk. so probably F. ./'. l F. ·z· birds of re ·.gyrJa co, · gentz ts, Gm ;-so badly determined were the P Y at the pertod of the first edition. |