FALCONIDJS. 9 



Measurements of the female above referred to : — 



in. lin. 



Entire length 32 10 



Length of folded wing 25 



„ tarsus 5 5 



„ middle toe 3 3 



tail 13 



„ bill 2 9 



[The female bird above aUuded to, a fine adult specimen, 

 formed a part of Mr. Andersson's collection of specimens ; and 

 his portfolio, of coloured drawings comprised one by Mr. Baines 

 of an adult of this species, to which is attached the following 

 note : — " Eagle supposed to be living on a brood of yo\mg 

 ostriches, having kiUed one on the morning of this day, March 

 18th, 1862, between Mount Lubels and Mount Nguiba, twenty 

 or twenty-five miles south of Lake Ngami^^*. Mr. Andersson 

 states in his notes that he believes that he also observed the 

 Crowned Eagle [Spizaetus coronatus) at least twice during his 

 travels, but, not having succeeded in obtaining a specimen, he 

 was unable to include it as an ascertained Damara-Land species. 

 — Ed.J 



12. HaliaetuS VOcifer (Daud.). African Sea-Eagle. 



SaUaetus vocifer, Des Murs, Icon. Om. pi. 8. 

 „ „ Layard's Cat. No. 21. 



„ „ Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 389. 



This very handsome species is not an inhabitant of 

 either Damara or Great Namaqua Land, but is tolerably 

 common in the Lake-region and its watersheds and also 

 along the course of the Okavango. 



[Mr. Andersson^s portfolio contained a portrait by Mr. 

 Baines of an adult Eagle of this species obtained on the 

 Botletle River on 30th April, 1862, but I have not personally 

 examined a Damara specimen. — Ed.] 



* Conf- Baines, ' Explorations in South- West Africa/ pp. 401, 402. 



