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oaks, constructed with sticks and branches of trees, 
and as wide as the body of a cart. They found in 
this nest three young birds, already so large that 
their wings extended seven ells ; their legs were 
as thick as those of a lion ; and their nails the size 
of a man’s fingers. In the nest were found several 
skins of calves and sheep.” 
Mr. Bruce met with this bird in Abyssinia, where 
it is called by the common people, Abou Duch’n, 
or father long-beard, probably from the tuft of hair 
which hangs beneath the throat. That gentleman 
has given the following particular and entertaining 
description of this species, which we have taken the 
liberty to extract from the appendix to his Travels. 
u From wing to wing he was eight feet four 
inches ; from the tip of his tail to the point of his 
beak, when dead, four feet seven inches ; he weighed 
twenty-two pounds, and was very full of flesh. He 
seemed remarkably short in the legs, being only 
four inches from the joining of the foot to where 
the leg joins the thigh, and from the joint of the 
thigh to the joining of his body six inches. The 
thickness of his thigh was little less than four inches ; 
it was extremely muscular, and covered with flesh. 
His middle claw was about two inches and a half 
long, not very sharp at the point, but extremely 
strong. From the root of the bill to the point was 
three inches and a quarter, and one inch and three 
quarters in breadth at the root. A forked brush of 
strong hair, divided at the point into two, proceeded 
from the cavity of his lower jaw, at the beginning 
