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faw him at laft ftagger and fall : the con-? 
queror then fell upon him to difpatch him, 
and with one ftroke of her beak laid open his 
fkull. 
At this Inftant, having no farther obferva- 
tions to make, I killed her. In her craw, for 
this bird has one, though no perfon has noticed 
it, I found on diffedion eleven pretty large 
lizards ; three ferpents as long as my arm ; 
eleven fmall tortoifes, very entire, feveral of 
which v/ere about two inches in diameter ; and 
a number of locuRs and other infeds, moft of 
w^hich were fufficiently whole to be vv^orth pre- 
ferving and adding to my colledion. The 
lizards, ferpents, and tortoifes, had all received 
the blow on the head from the beak. 
I obferved too that, befide this mafs of food, 
the craw contained a fort of ball, as large as the 
egg of a gcofe, formed of the vertebrae of fer- 
pepts and lizards devoured before, fhells of little 
tortoifes, and v;ings, claws, and fliields of dif- 
ferent kinds of beetles. When this indigeftible 
mafs becomes too large, the fecretary, no doubt, 
like other birds of prey, vomits and brings it 
up. Hov/ever, from the fuperabundant quan~ 
tity of aliment contained in the craw of the one 
I killed. 
