18 RAPTORIAL BIRDS 
Norwich Museum possesses all the known species of 
this genus, one of which, Czrcaétus fasciolatus, has only 
been found in the Colony of Natal, and is so scarce, 
that the two specimens at Norwich, and one in the 
British Museum, are the only examples known to 
exist in any European collection. 
The female specimen now at Norwich was found, 
when killed, to have been feeding very plentifully on 
winged /ermites, which. constitute, at certain seasons, 
a very favourite article of food for many of the South 
African birds of prey. This specimen was figured in 
the “Ibis,” for the year 1862 
The remaining birds of this group consist of the 
African Short-tailed Eagles, of the genus /elotarsus . 
of these there are two species, differing in the colour 
of the back, which in the adult bird of the commoner 
sort is rufous, whilst in the other, and scarcer species, 
it is of a pale salmon colour; but both races are con- 
spicuous for their beauty of colouring when alive ; 
their legs and feet, and the bare skin between the bill 
and the eye, being then of a bright coral red. These 
Eagles are remarkable for the shortness of the tail, and 
this, with the comparative length of the wings, and 
the elongated feathers of the head, (which can be par- 
tially raised during life) gives them a singular and 
grotesque appearance. 
Their usual flight is calm and majestic, but occa- 
sionally they soar to a great height, from which they 
* Another rare species of this genus (Z Beaudouini ), was figured 
in the same volume from a specimen in the Norwich Museum. 
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