FALCONID^E. 9 



Measurements of the female above referred to : 



in. lin. 



Entire length 32 10 



Length of folded wing 25 



tarsus 55 



middle toe 33 



tail 13 



bill 29 



[The female bird above alluded to, a fine adult specimen, 

 formed a part of Mr. Anders son's collection of specimens ; and 

 his portfolio of coloured drawings comprised one by Mr. Baines 

 of an adult of this species, to which is attached the following 

 note : " Eagle supposed to be living on a brood of young 

 ostriches, having killed one on the morning of this day, March 

 18th, 1862, between Mount Lubels and Mount Nguiba, twenty 

 or twenty-five miles south of Lake Ngami"*. Mr. Andersson 

 states in his notes that he believes that he also observed the 

 Crowned Eagle (Spizaetus coronatus) at least twice during his 

 travels, but, not having succeeded in obtaining a specimen, he 

 was unable to include it as an ascertained Damara-Land species. 

 En.] 



12. HaliaetuS VOcifer (Daud.). African Sea-Eagle. 



Haliaetus vocifer, Des Murs, Icon. Orn. pi. 8. 

 Layard's Cat. No. 21. 



Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 389. 



This very handsome species is not an inhabitant of 

 either Damara or Great Namaqua Land, but is tolerably 

 common in the Lake-region and its watersheds and also 

 along the course of the Okavango. 



[Mr. Andersson's portfolio contained a portrait by Mr. 

 Baines of 'an adult Eagle of this species obtained on the 

 Botletle River on 30th April, 1862, but I have not personally 

 examined a Damara specimen. ED.] 



* Conf. Baines, f Explorations in South- West Africa/ pp. 401, 402. 



