Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Harpyia .
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- noun a genus of Accipitridae
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Other non-endemic bird distributed along the western region of the Cordillera, such as the harpy eagle (Harpia harpia) and the military macaw (Ara militaris), are considered vulnerable at national level.
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-- Head and muzzle as in _H. harpia_; fur long and dense, above brown with grey bases; underneath whitish; sides light brown.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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_Harpiocephalus_ and _Murina_ must be united in a single genus; but finding afterwards that Gray had founded _Murina_ on a specimen of what he believed to be _Vesp. suillus_ (Temm.), but which was in reality a specimen of a very different species from Darjeeling, belonging to the same section of the genus as _Vespertilio harpia_
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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