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one heard the rush of air at a quarter-mile (see p. 224). 
This eagle, on seeing its original aim to be untrue, had 
the power instantly to check its on-rush; then, after 
poising a second, to renew the attack on a different 
line. In Somaliland, our hunters told us, this eagle 
kills their goats, and also attacks young antelopes and 
LOST BY A LENGTH. HAWK-EAGLE AND GUINEA-FOWL. 
gazelles. One day, while sheltering in a cave from 
the noontide heat, a pair of dark chocolate-coloured 
eagles, with conspicuous white secondaries, after wheeling 
overhead, uttering piercing shrieks, alighted on the crag 
opposite, not eighty yards away, and I enjoyed watching 
them vis-a-vis for nearly an hour. They had black 
occipital crests quite a foot long, which lifted and waved 
in the breeze. These were Lophoaetus occipitalis , the 
black-crested hawk-eagle. 
One is apt to find strange neighbours during that 
