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on stilts than anything else, and it really is 

 a sort of running eagle ; it is very active on its 

 legs, but although it has large wings like an 

 ordinary eagle's, it has but little power of 



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SECRETARY-BIRD. 



flight, and cannot go far at a time on the wing. 

 No doubt it has let its wing - muscles get 

 weak for want of practice, as it finds it can do 

 all its business on foot. They generally have 

 the secretary-bird on view at the Zoo, and the 



