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the back, say at an angle of 45 degrees to the ground. 
Four ostriches fed with the giraffe, and below, nearer 
the wooded donga, seven waterbuck. Close by stood a 
hyena. 
Besides the above, there were also in sight of where 
I sat on the high koppie, three great crowds of kongoni 
—hundreds in all—and several troops of zebra, mixed 
with which were six wildebeest, while gazelles of both 
sorts dotted the veld. Overhead soared a pair of the 
great white-breasted harpy eagles, using their extended 
feet as equipoises to balance in the breeze. On the 
koppie hard by, hyrax ran about the rocks, and the 
evening sky was filled with hovering kestrels. A 
Bateleur eagle, disturbed from the crags, vainly tried to 
poise on a thorn-tree below, and skeins of crowned 
cranes startled the stillness, passing up the valley with 
resonant cries. 
EAGLES STOOPING. 
