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5. Food. Fish, ducks, and water-fowl of all kinds, young of deer and pigs 

 when obtainable, hares, rabbits, rats, mice, carrion. The young are fed by the 

 female on waterfowl, hares, and rabbits, and in some localities on fish. [w. p. p.] 



The following species are described in the supplementary chapter on 

 "Rare Birds": 



Great spotted-eagle, Aquila maculdta (Gmelin), where descriptions are 



also given of two species of the family Vulturidce : 

 Griffon-vulture, G$ps fulvus (Hablizl) [Gyps fulvus (Gmelin)]. 

 Egyptian-vulture, Neophron percnopterus (Linnaeus). [F. c. R. J.] 



