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I greatly fufpect this bird to be the fame with the Black Eagle of 
Mr. Bruce, alluded to above, the chief difference of which, is the 
latter having the feathers of the head elongated into a creft of a con- 
fiderable length, which it carries erect. Mr. Bruce’s bird is alfo bare 
from the bill quite to the eyes, and yellow, in this greatly approach- 
ing to the Vulture genus, and may fairly be faid to form a link be- 
tween the two. It was met with in the year 1770 at Dinglevor, 
among a cloud of Vultures and other birds of prey, which follow the 
army in Abyfinia, and was ftruck down by fome of thefe, by which 
means it came under Mr. Bruce’s infpection. 
Le Griffard, Levaill. O:/. 1. pl. 1. 
Aigle Griffard, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 38. il. 
HIS is the fize of an Eagle, and weighs from twenty-five to - 
thirty pounds: the male meafures from the tip to tip of the 
wings extended, feven fcet and an half, and the female one foot more. 
The bill is moderately curved, and of a pale colour: irides bright 
hazel: the general colour of the plumage is brown; the edges of the 
feathers paler, with the fame mixture of white about the nape of the 
neck; the under parts nearly white: quills black, reaching three- 
fourths of the way on the tail at leaft ; fome of the leffer ones are barred 
with black and whitifh: tail even at the end, marked as the fecond 
quills : legs feathered to the claws, which are pale as the bill. 
This is an inhabitant of -dfrica, frequenting the Great Namaqua, 
about the twenty-eighth degree of latitude, chiefly the parts uninha- 
bited by whites: is a courageous bird, preying on antelopes, hares, 
&c. is in its turn attacked by crows and vultures, in order to deprive 
it of its prey, though feldom with fuccefs: moftly feen in company 
with its mate, and builds a large flat neft, of large fticks and twigs, on 
the tops of high trees, of fo compact a ftruClure, as to enable any 
one to ftand upon it firm, without breaking through, fuch an one 
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