Identifier: birdsofbritishgu01chub (find matches)
Title: The birds of British Guiana : based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell ...
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Chubb, Charles McConnell, Frederick Vavasour, d. 1914 Grönvold, Henrik, 1858-1940, ill Milne, H. F., engraver Slud, Paul, former owner. DSI Bale & Danielsson, lithographer
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London : Bernard Quaritch ...
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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nguished by the long tail andnnch.d crest. The distance between the sunnnit of the nostril andthe rid;e of the culmen is less than the length of the nostril itself. 160. Morphnus g-uianensis.Guiana Crested Eagle. Fdlco guianensis Daud. Traite, ii. p. 78, 1800 (Guiana). Morphnus guianensis Ga\). in Scbomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 738,1848;Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 222, 1874- (British Guiana) ; Salvin,Ibis, 1886, p. 75 (Bartica Grove) ; Quelch, Timehri (2) vi. p. 148,1892; Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 137, 1910 (HoorieCreek) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 70, no. 646, 1912. Adult. General colour above blackish, the feathers mottled withwhite and brown, the mottlings on the flight-quills rather darker MORPHXUS. 253 and broken up into irregular bands ; tail black, with four mottledgrey bands and tipped with a similar colour; head, face, andthroat pale brown with darker shaft-lines ; fore-neck and chestblackish ; remainder of the under surface white, freckled with
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3Ior))Jiiivs f/uirineiisis. f nat. size. Fig. 52.—To show the scutellatiDns on the tarsi and toes and thelarge bind claw. brown and barred with black ; the bands on the qtiills and tailbelow much ()ahr than above. Total length iS20 nun., cuhuen (including the core) 4;).Aving -ir)2,tail ;)().), tarsus 10.), middle toe and claw 71, hind i-law witliont toe ;;.s. Tlie bird described was collecte*! on the Muzaruni l\iver.fireedinrf-xeasnii. Uid<nown in Iritish (iiiiana. 254 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. Xest. It builds its large nest in unscaleable trees (Srho))iInir(/k). l^gga. UndescribeJ from British (xiiiana. Range in BrilisJi Guiana. Mazaruni River (McConnell col-lection) ; Tuarutu and Oanuku Mountains (Schomhiirgh) ; Bartica( Whiteli/) ; Hoorie C^reek (Beehe). EMralimital Range. Colombia, Eastern Peru, Paraguay. Ilahits. Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 738) says that thisbeautiful bird of prey is one of the largest species inhabiting BritishGuiana. He found it fairly common near the

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