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the back, say at an angle of 45 degrees to the ground. 

 Four ostriches fed with the giraffe, and below, nearer 

 the wooded donga, seven waterbuck. Close by stood a 

 hyena. 



Besides the above, there were also in sight of where 

 I sat on the high koppie, three great crowds of kongoni 

 — hundreds in all — and several troops of zebra, mixed 

 with which were six wildebeest, while gazelles of both 

 sorts dotted the veld. Overhead soared a pair of the 

 great white-breasted harpy eagles, using their extended 

 feet as equipoises to balance in the breeze. On the 

 koppie hard by, hyrax ran about the rocks, and the 

 evening sky was filled with hovering kestrels. A 

 Bateleur eagle, disturbed from the crags, vainly tried to 

 poise on a thorn-tree below, and skeins of crowned 

 cranes startled the stillness, passing up the valley with 

 resonant cries. 



EAGLES STOOPING. 



