si-;ri'i:\tariii)AK 



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having been already noticed (p. loT), it only remains to discuss 

 in detail the several families com])i-ised in tlie latter Sub-Order. 



Fam. II. Serpentariidae.- — Tliis couiaius only Scrpentorius 

 secretari us, the African Secretary-] >ird — now generally recognised 

 as an Accipi trine form — which is most connnon in the south, 



Fig, 08. — Secretary- liinl. IScrpcalarius sccrcturlus. x }j. 



thouifh extending northwards to the Gandiia, Khartum, and 

 Abyssinia. It was first accurately made known in 1769, I'rom 

 an example living in the menagerie of the I'rince of Orange, by 

 Vosmaer, who was told that at the Cape of Good Hope it was 

 called "Sagittarius," oi' Arclier, i'rom its habit of striding like a 

 bowman about to shoot, and that this name had been corrupted 

 into " Secretarius." SubstMjucntly — about 1770 — a pair was 



