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NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF AFRICA. 



TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF LE VAILLANT. 



THE BLAGRE EAGLE. (Haliatus Blagrus, Savigny.) 



La Blagre, Levaill. Ois. de l'Afrique, i. pi. 5 ; Falco Blagrus, Lath., Index Orn. 

 Sup. p. viii. ; Blagre Falcon, Lath. Gen. Sup. ii. p. 34 ; Gen. Hist. i. 159 ; Daud. 

 ii. p. 70 ; Shaw's Zool. vii. p. 96; Drapiez, Diet. Class., i. p. 333. 



The Blagre Eagle is in Africa what the baldbuzzard is in Europe. He 

 is modelled upon the same proportions, and possesses precisely the 

 same manners. His principal food consists of fish, which he observes 

 from a great height in the air, and seizes by precipitately plunging into 

 the water. Perched upon a tree that is situated on the margin of a 

 river or lake, or upon a rock bordering on the sea, he passes whole 

 mornings pouncing upon the fishes which are presented to his view. 

 He is seldom found in the interior of the country, where the land is 

 dry and sandy ; he only frequents the sea-shore, or rivers, where fish 

 are plentiful. He soars to a prodigious height, whence he is heard to 



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