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tinged with green, while the orbital ridge and other bare 

 skin round the eye were of a dull olive-green. 



223. LoPHOAETus OCCIPITALIS. Crcstcd Hawk-Eagle. 

 Chindao : '' Ifinye." 



Rh., P. On September 13th, near Maruma, within quite 

 a small radius, I saw several of these Eagles, including one 

 in light immature plumage, for the most part wheeling high 

 overhead with their weird scream ^' Queer " ! In heading 

 against the wind they tack a good deal, giving five or six 

 flaps, then gliding off slightly from the wind, then taking 

 a few more beats up against it, and so on, the scream 

 being uttered every few seconds. I noted the bird on the 

 Kurumadzi in August and November, and at Chibabava, 

 following the river, in December. 



224. Haliaetus vocifer. Sea-Eagle. 



P. I saw one of these fine Sea-Eagles standing on a sand- 

 bank at the edge of the Buzi E-iver at Gwaragwara, on 

 December 21st, 1906. 



225. Helotarsus ecaudatus. Bateleur. 



Rh., P. In the lowlands I noted this fine Eagle on 

 November 26th between Chimbuya and Umtefu, and again 

 at the mouth of the Buzi on December 22nd. It is evidently 

 not averse to carrion, for an individual, during a period of 

 mortality amongst my small stock, used to constantly frequent 

 the spot where the dead goats were thrown out. I had just 

 crossed the upper Buzi on September 8th, when down 

 swooped a fine pair of Bateleurs, the male in hot pursuit 

 of the female (at once distinguishable by the broad black 

 edging to its secondaries), with a tremendous whistle of the 

 wings, and, after nearly touching the tree-tops, made off 

 (as described by Marshall, 'Ibis,' 1900, p. 258), swooping 

 and twisting and circling without a flap of the wings to 

 a great height. 



226. GvPAJiTUs ossiFRAGUs. Southern Lammergeyer. 



P. A fine specimen of this bird was obtained by 

 Dierking at Maruma early in 1906. 



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