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NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF AFRICA, 



TIJAKS-LATED FROM THE FRENCH OF LE VAILLANT. 



THE CAFFER EAGLE (Halieetus vulturinu*, SAVIGNV). 



Le Caffre, Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afr. pi. 6. Falco vulturinus, Latham, Irid. Ornith. 

 Sup. p. ii. Vulturine Eagle, Lath. Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. p. 15. Id. Gen. Hist. L 141. 

 Gypaete, Temminck, Man. 2nd ed. p. xlviii. 



THIS bird may be regarded as an intermediate species forming a 

 link between the eagles and the vultures *. It has more resemblance 

 to the latter in the form of its beak and in its talons, which are some- 

 what curved and blunt ; but its head is not bare of feathers, an inva- 

 riable character which systematists have assigned to the vultures. The 

 feathers which cover the neck are not so tapering and lengthened as 



* Although this savours of the fanciful language of the modern school, it does 

 not appear, from the whole tenor of the author's writings, that he had any idea of 

 an eagle passing into a vulture through this species. J. R. 

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