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lambs and sickly sheep. A pair of young birds was sent to the South 
African Museum from Graaff-Reinet by Mr. Ziervogel, the member 
- for that division, who tells us that it is a constant (though rare) 
resident there. Mr. Ayres writes :—“ Not at all plentiful in Natal. 
The only locality in which I have yet seen them, has been amongst 
the rocky hills of the Inanda location.” He has more recently 
obtained it in the Orange Free State on a range of hills near 
Hland’s River. ‘ 
Mr. H. Bowker, Commandant of the Frontier Armed and Mounted 
Police, writes in epistola: “Do you know the story of the ‘ Arend’ 
among the Dutch? It is supposed to be the Raven let out of the 
Ark, and it is considered very unlucky to do it any injury. Family 
sickness, insolvency, loss of cattle or sheep, are amongst the evils 
which will fall on the unfortunate wight who may interfere with 
them, so take care how you shoot one now that I have warned 
you!” 
Adult.—Top of head dirty white, bill black ; circle round the eyes, 
space between them and bill covered with black stiff hair, which 
extends on each side to the base of the lower mandible. A tuft of 
similar hair, of considerable length, projects outwards from under 
the bill. Back, wings, and tail dark blackish ash, each feather 
being light in the centre and darker on the edges, with white shafts 
and blotches. Shafts of wing and tail feathers white : tail wedge- 
shaped. Under parts white, tinged and coated with a reddish 
substance, which can be scraped off; iris pale yellow; sclerotic 
membrane blood red. Length, 3’ 10”; wing, 2’ 8”; tail, 1’ 9”. 
Young.—Quite different from the adult, being brown, the whole 
of the head blackish; quills and tail paler than the adult; iris very 
bright greyish brown. 
Fig. Riipp. Syst. Uebers, pl. 1. 
29. AQUILA VERREAUXI. Verreaux’s Hacle. 
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Mr. Andersson found this Eagle nesting in Little Namaqua Land on 
lofty rocks, but he adds :—“ I cannot specify an instance of its occur- 
rence to the northward of the Orange River.” 
Although it is found in North Eastern Africa, the limit to its 
range in the southern part of that continent as above given by Mr. 
Andersson seems to hold good. 
 Verreaux’s eagle is not uncommon throughout the colony, wher- 
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