MANNERS. 
PLace. 
12. 
BACHA 
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DESCRIPTION. 
Rr Ce Grn, 
outwardly with filvery grey: the bill and legs are dufky; bafe of 
the bill yellowifh, cere large: the tail in this bird is characteriftically 
fhort, and half hidden by its coverts ; irides deep brown: while young, 
the general colour is brown, paleft on the head and neck, with the 
edges of all the feathers light coloured : the female is one-fourth bigger 
than the male. It builds in trees, lays three or four white eggs: 
The young are fo unlike the old one, that were it not for the fhort 
tail, they might be miftaken for a different fpecies, and are more 
like the female in every ftage: the male is not complete in its 
plumage till the third year’s moult. 
Thefe feed on all forts of carrion, yet will attack young antelopes, 
alfo lurk about inhabited places, for the fake of attacking any fick 
fheep. It is moft common about Queer Boom, near Lagoa Bay; very 
common in all the country of Hottniquas and Natal, quite to Caffraria. 
The male and female always feen in company; rarely in troops, 
except many pairs are invited to the fame repaft. “The name given 
this bird by Mr. Zevaillant, arofe from its flapping the wings in 4 
fingular manner while in the air, fo as to be heard at a ereat diftance, 
and this repeated from one to the other as if at play, or rather as if 
to amufe the fpectators below, as buffoons do on a ftage. , It is known 
to the inhabitants by the name of Berg-baan (mountain cock) but 
perhaps not fufficiently diftinguifhable, as they call fo all birds of 
prey, particularly eagles. 
Le Bacha, Lewvaillant, Oif-i. p. 68. pl. 15.—Daudin. Orx. ii. p. 43. ix. 
HIS in fize and refemblance is not unlike our common Buzzard, 
~ but rather more elongated: the general colour dirty brown, the 
wings and tail deepeft: the bill is lead colour; cere yellow : the crown 
of the head black, and the feathers at the back part of it elongated 
into a creft, of which the feathers are half black half white, the 
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