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which the head, neck, and belly are pure white, without any ftreaks : 
the reft of the body of a dull ruft colour. It is called: Girrenera: 
part of its food confifts of eggs, as the f{tomach of one was found full 
of egg fhells. 
Le Vocifer, Levaill. Oi/, i. p. 17. pl. 4. 
Aigle Vocifer, Daudin, Orn. ii. p. 65. XXXv. 
— Nonette, Gaby, Voy. in Nigritie. 
HIS bird is the fize and make of the O/prey, and greatly re- 
fembles it in manners: extends from wing to wing eight feet: 
the bill is lead colour: the legs yellow: irides red brown: the head, 
neck, breaft, and f{capulars, are pure white edged with brown; on the 
breaft a few black brown fpots: the tail of a pure white: the reft 
of the plumage is rufty brown, ftreaked with dingy black ; the leffer 
wing coverts more inclining to ruft colour: quills black, croffed on 
the outer webs with fine rufous and black lines: lower part of the back 
and rump, mixed black and dirty white: between the bill and eye, a 
yellow fkin barely covered with hairs: the lower part of the belly 
and thighs deep rufous, feathered only to the knees: the wings when 
clofed reach ‘to the end. of the tail. The female is more dull in 
colour. 
This fpecies inhabits the more inward parts of the Cape of Good 
Hope, about fixty or eighty leagues up the country ; moft common 
about Lagoa Bay. The colonifts at the Cape, call it Groote Vi/-vanger, 
or Witte Vif-vanger, as it feeds on fifh, defcending upon them into 
the water after the manner of the O/prey, retiring to a rock to eat 
it; fuppofed alfo now and then to feed on young antelopes, as the 
bones of one have been found in the neft; alfo on the great lizard, 
common in the African rivers. The male and female are rarely {een 
apart; they build’ on the tops of trees, or on the rocks, and Jay two 
Supp. Il. F or 
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PISCIVOROUS 
E. 
DascRipTion, 
PLACE. 
