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CATALOGUE. 
my servants were eating their dinner in the outer air, with several 
large dishes of boiled goats' -flesh before them, this enemy, as he 
turned out to be to them, appeared suddenly. He did not stoop 
rapidly from a height, but came flying slowly along the ground, 
and sat down close to the meat, within the ring the men had made 
round it. A great shout being raised, the bird slowly retired, but he 
soon came up again, when he was shot a small distance from the 
party." Eiippell found the G-ypaetus on most of the high mountains 
of Abyssinia, chiefly in parties of three, — an old pair with a single 
young one. It is fully aware of its strength, and shows no fear on 
the approach of man. This bird is also described in Salt's " Travels/* 
App. p. 41. 
" Avery common bird about Angollallah and Ankober (Abyssinia). 
It is not so timid as the solitary specimens of its family in Europe, 
it comes not into the compounds, but still it hovers about in the 
next vicinity of the towns and villages. Smells dreadfully from its 
mode of living. Takes a great quantity of water." — (Dr. Eoth's MS. 
Report.) 
Fam. II. FALCONIDiE, Leach, 
This family is naturally divided into the following sub-families : — 
I. FALComisr^, Wahre Falhen, 
II. MiLViNiE, Weihen. 
III. AcciPiTRiM, Salichte. 
IV. AQUiLiNiE, Adler. 
V. BuTEONiNJE, Bussards. 
— /. I. Kaupi Monographien der Falconidce. 
I. FALCONINiE. 
Genus Tinnunculus, Vieill, Ois. de VAmer. I. p. 39 (1807). 
Ceechneis, Boie, Isis (1826), p. 976. 
^GTPirs, Kaup, Naturl. Syst. p. 20 (1829). 
Falcula, Hodgs., J. A. S. Beng. (1837),^. 365. 
TiCHORNis et P(ECiLOENis, Kaup, Classif. der Bcdug, und 
r^Pj^.^. 108 (1844). 
