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harmless, subsisting chiefly upon insects and small birds. 

 Our photograph is from a mounted specimen in the Transvaal 

 Museum, collected at Wolmaranstad by Mr. A. Eoberts. 



Fia. 47. — Pigmy Paloon. 

 (From a mounted specimen.) 



EAGLES 



The next group is the Eagles, the first representative of 

 which is the powerful Black Eagle {Aquila mneauxi), called 

 by the Boers the Dassievanger (dassie-catcher) from its 



