
Harpyhaliaetus solitarius (Tschudi, 1844) Solitary Eagle, águila solitaria. This eagle has a long, uncomfortable history of reports in SE Mexico (Howell and Webb, 1995), and it was reported at Palenque in 1972 and again in 19831985 (e.g., Paulson, 1986). Photographs taken in 1983 of 1 such bird proved, years later, to be of Buteogallus anthracinus (KPA in litt., 18 Dec 2007). Reports from elsewhere in the Selva Lacandona (González-García, 1993; Puebla-Olivares et al., 2002) lack documentation. We are unaware of any valid records for the Gulf lowlands of Mexico, but the species has been recorded recently in highlands of central Belize (Clark et al., 2006) and foothills near Uxpanapa, Oaxaca (MAP, BS-P, 27 Jan 2001), and a small population apparently occurred formerly in the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, Veracruz (Winker et al., 1992; W. J. Schaldach, Jr., ms.).