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one heard the rush of air at a quarter-mile (see p. 224). 

 This eas^le, on seeino' its orioinal aim to be untrue, had 

 the power instantly to check its on-rnsh ; then, after 

 poising a second, to renew the attack on a different 

 line. In Somaliland, our hunters told us, this eagle 

 kills their goats, and also attacks young antelopes and 



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LOST BY A LENGTH. HAWK-EAGLE A>"D GUINEA-FOWL. 



gazelles. One day, while sheltering in a cave from 

 the noontide heat, a pair of dark chocolate-coloured 

 eagles, with conspicuous white secondaries, after wheeling 

 overhead, uttering piercing shrieks, alighted on the crag 

 opposite, not eighty yards away, and I enjoyed watching 

 them vis-d-vis for nearly an hour. They had black 

 occipital crests cj^uite a foot long, which lifted and waved 

 in the breeze. These were Lophoaetus occipitalis, the 

 black-crested hawk-eaerle. 



One is apt to find strange neighbours during that 



