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that, flew full 200 yards before finally collapsing : then at 

 last he fell, stone-dead. 



Our trophy was not an eagle after all ! but one of those 

 giant birds, the Black Vulture (Vultur monachus), measuring 

 a trifle under ten feet in expanse of wing, and scaling 



BLACK VULTURE. (Adult Male, shot January 4th, 1SS8.) 



roughly between two and three stones. I need hardly add 

 that I had at once recognized the species on rising to fire the 

 first time ; and though it was somewhat of a disappoint- 

 ment, it at least settled the question respecting these 

 fabulously large eagles. This bird proved a magnificent 



