112 A Description of the Birds 
1. AguiLa BELLICOSA. Daudin. 
Falco Armiger, Shaws Zoology, vol. 7,p.57.—Falco bellicosus, 
Ind. Orn. vol. 1, p. 9.—Le Gritfard, Le Vaillant Oiss. d’ Afri- 
que, tome 1, pl. 1. 
A rostro nigricante; capite subcristato; plumis capitis, 
cervicisque albo et nigro-fuscus variegatis ; dorsi humerorumque 
fuscis albo marginatis. Infra alba; remigibus primariis 
nigris apicibus albis; secundariis et rectricibus nigro griseoque 
fasciatis, extrema parte albis. 
Bill bluish at the base, black elsewhere ; eyes fine brown; 
space between them and bill thinly covered with black bristles ; 
plumage of hindhead a little elongated, so as to form a slight 
crest. Feathers of head, and of back and sides of neck, as 
well as of the front thereof towards its middle, variegated 
blackish brown and white ; the latter towards their bases and 
tips, and the former intermediate between those ; interscapu- 
lars, back, tail, coverts, and shoulders more or less deep 
brown; with the tips of all the feathers. but particularly of 
those of the latter, dusky white. Throat, breast, belly, and 
legs pure white. Primary wing feathers black, tipt with 
white ; secondaries alternately banded with dusky blackish 
brown and dull hoary gray, and all broadly tipt with white. 
Tail slightly rounded, with each feather banded more or less 
directly across by black and hoary gray, the latter usually 
passing to white towards the ner margins of the inner vanes, 
and all distinctly tipt with white. ‘Tarsi and toes a light 
livid green, inclining sometimes to yellowish green; claws 
deep black and much curved; length from bill to base of tail 
twenty inches; length of latter twelve inches; expanse of 
wings about eight feet and a half. 
Le Vaillant says*, the female is about one-fourth larger 
than the male, and nearly of the same color; that she lays 
two large and almost round white eggs in a nest constructed 
on a tree or upon rocks, according to circumstances ; that the 
male and female are usually seen together, and that their 
favorite food consists of hares and the smaller antelopes, 
which they pursue with much activity and determination. He 
also remarks that it is only found on the western coast of 
South Africa, which is also the locality that my experience 
warrants me in assigning it, as the only two examples I have 
seen were near to the mouth of Oliphants River. 
2. Aguita vuLTURINA. Berghaan and Dassievanger of the 
Colonists. 
Faleo Vulturinus, Shaw’s Zoology, vol. 7, p. 58.—Le Caftre 
Le Vaillant Oiss. d Afrique, tome 1, p. 28. 
* Wherever my own observations are deficient, and the want can be sup- 
plied by a reference to the work of the author just quoted, I shall always 
avail myself thereof without hesitation, only making him responsible by 
acknowledging the authority. 
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