. The birds of South Africa. Birds -- South Africa. FALCONID.^ SPIZAETUS 303 are generally to be found, Mr. Ayres found a nest on June 10 in the Orange Eiver Colony ; it was about five feet in diameter, built of sticks and lined with fresh green twigs and placed in an old gnarled tree on the side of a hill; it contained only one somewhat incubated egg; this was chalky white, blotched and spotted with reddish brown and rather rounded in shape, measuring 3'3 x 2-55. A nest was also found by Symonds on September 20, which contained one young bird in down. It was placed in a mimosa tree overhangin
. The birds of South Africa. Birds -- South Africa. FALCONID.^ SPIZAETUS 303 are generally to be found, Mr. Ayres found a nest on June 10 in the Orange Eiver Colony ; it was about five feet in diameter, built of sticks and lined with fresh green twigs and placed in an old gnarled tree on the side of a hill; it contained only one somewhat incubated egg; this was chalky white, blotched and spotted with reddish brown and rather rounded in shape, measuring 3'3 x 2-55. A nest was also found by Symonds on September 20, which contained one young bird in down. It was placed in a mimosa tree overhanging the river and was easily accessible. After watching the nest for some weeks in the hope of obtaining the parent birds without success, the young one was taken away and kept for some time in captivity. It became fairly tame and allowed one to enter its cage and scratch its head. Sir Harry Johnson also kept a Martial Hawk-eagle for some time ; he relates, as proving the great strength of the bird, how, on one occasion when playing with the bird, a cat approached; in a second the eagle had darted out a foot and had driven its claws through the cat's skull killing it instantaneously. Genus VII. SPIZAETUS. Type. Spizaetus, Vicill. Analyse, p. 24 (1816) S. mauduyti. Bill somewhat short and deep, the culmen evenly curved throughout its length, edge of the upper mandible slightly festooned ; nostrils oblique ovals entirely free from feathers or. Fig. 97.—Wing of Spizaf'tus coronatns. x 1. bristles ; a small occipital crest of short but broad feathers ; wings short and rounded, only reaching to just beyond the upper tail- coverts ; difference between the length of the primaries and secondaries hardly noticeable (in South African species) ; tail. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stark, Arthur Cowell
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