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wliich I shotj most resembling that described by Mr. Bruce, differed in some 
slight respects from his drawing : the pupil of the eye was deep black ; the 
irides sandy yellow, and an outer film, which it occasionally draws over the 
whole ball of the eye, of a deep bright scarlet ; tongue hard, bifid, and fitting 
exactly in the under mandible ; beak dirty brown, with tufts of black hair 
growing on each side of the upper mandible, bending forwards, and almost 
covering the nostrils ; tufts of the same on each side of the lower mandible^ 
and a still larger one forming a beard underneath : the space round the eye, 
and in front of it, as well as an angle behind, deep black, giving a bright 
lustre to the eye ; the head covered entirely with small dirty white feathers, 
which, as well as those of the neck, breast, and belly, were tinged with a 
rusty brown; the colour of the feathers on the back, tail, and wmgs, of a 
fine deep glossy brown, with white ribs ; feathers on the back of the neck 
standing erect, somewhat like a ruff ; tail feathers ten in number, wedge- 
shaped ; wing feathers twenty-six ; extent from the tip of one wing to the 
other rather more than eight feet; the bird otherwise agreeing with the 
measurements given by Mr. Bruce ; the whole of the body covered with a 
yellowish down. The other eagle killed at the same time, was nearly of 
the same size and make, but rather the smaller of the two ; but the head and 
neck were blacker ; the under part of the body dusky brown ; the small fea- 
thers of wings lighter, and talons somewhat longer : this latter w^as supposed 
to be the male. (The drawing by Mr. Edwards of the bearded vulture gives 
no idea of this bird.) The other species is rare in the country, and has been 
described by Dr. JShaw under the name of the Falco occipitalis, or Occipital 
eagle. The drawing of this by Mr. Bruce is very correct. There is ano- 
ther species of falcon in the country, called by the natives Goodic-Goodic,* 
which I conceive to be nearly allied to the Sacre. Its size is about the same 
as that of the common falcon ; its feet and beak of a blueish tint; its general 
colour deep brown, approaching to black ; and the whole of the breast of 
a clear white colour ; so that it may be properly designated by the name of 
The Abyssinian white-breasted Lanner." The Abyssinians entertain a 
singular superstition respecting this bird. When they set out on a journey 
and meet with one of them, they watch it very carefully, and draw good or 
* The Abyssinians have so much veneration fur this bird, that they will not permit one 
on any account to be killed. 
