IN THE NORWICH MUSEUM. 15 
female specimen of .S. coronatus, now in the Norwich 
Museum, was shot by Mr. Thomas Ayres, of Natal, 
just after it had killed a large Monkey ofa species 
called Cercopithecus lalandi, which inhabits the forests 
of that colony, and of which the Museum contains a 
specimen. 
But formidable as are the great African Hawk- 
Eagles, their near congener, the Harpy Eagle of Tro- 
pical America, ( Ziraésatus harpya) is even more so; 
and as regards the development of its talons, and the 
strength of its foot, is probably the most powerful 
bird of prey in existence. 
Like the African Sfzzaétus coronatus, the Harpy is a 
destroyer of monkeys, and is usually found in the forests 
where these animals abound. The remaining Eagle 
of this group (Morphnus guianensis), is, as its name 
denotes, a native of Guiana. It is inferior in size and 
power to the Harpy, but is a rarer species in European 
collections, probably from the circumstance of its 
geographical range being more limited than that of 
the Harpy. 
The Hawk-Eagles are followed by a large group of 
Eagles of a feebler type, which mostly prey chiefly on 
small rodent quadrupeds, on the smaller reptiles, and 
on insects; and which, as they appear in some 
measure to combine the characteristics of the Buzzards 
and the Harriers with those of the Eagles, may be 
appropriately termed either Buzzard-Eagles or Harrier- 
Eagles; the former of these two names being that 
adopted in the Norwich Museum. 
