354 Bonelli’s Eagle 
will ascend to a great height and remain apparently motionless, 
literally hanging in the air. In their attack and swoop they are 
lightning-like. I can recall how in the winter of 1902 I was 
shooting Partridges on an alluvial plain near the town of El Kasr 
El Kebir in Morocco. Some birds rose rather wild and I sent 
away one hard-hit. I had hardly shouted to my companion ‘‘ Mark 
that bird ’ when a Bonelli’'s Eagle appeared on the scene with a 
tremendous swoop and clutching the wounded Partridge, without 
an instant’s check in its speed, swept with it onwards and upwards 
and vanished out of sight. It was an interesting spectacle for any 
student of bird-life and one of peculiar fascination to a falconer., 
