Palm-nut vulture or vulturine fish eagle, Gypohierax angolensis. Angola vulture, Falco angolensis. From a specimen in the British Museum drawn and engraved by (James?) Sowerby. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1827.

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