ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
THE KITES, BUZZARDS, EAGLES, HAWKS, AND ALLIES
The Guiana Harpy
(Morphnus guianensis) of Amazonia, Guiana, and Panama is separated from the others principally by the fact that the tail is of extraordinary length, this being more than four times as long as the very long tarsus.
This bird is about thirty-six inches long, the general color above being black, shaded with brown on the margins of the feathers, the head and neck becoming grayish, and most of the under parts white, as are the tips of the upper tail-coverts and upper wing-coverts. The tail is black, tipped with whitish brown and crossed with three bars of ashy brown.
This species is confined almost exclusively to the dense tropical forests, being rarely seen in the open country. There is an allied species (M. tcmiatus) in Ecuador, and an allied genus with a single species (Harpyopsis nova-guinea) in southeastern New Guinea.
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