. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . INGED NIGHTJAR. very handsome Buho lacteus were responsible for mostunearthly hootings which we heard at times, startlingthe midnight echoes. There were also two kinds ofeagles : the larger, light-breasted and broad-tailed, withshort rounded wings, was the crowned hawk-eagle(Spizaetus coronatus), a fierce and powerful species thatmade magnificent stoops after our startled guinea-fowl—these, however, escaping by tumbling pell-mell amongthe scrub, the eagle buoyantly sweeping upwards with alittle wild cry of vexat
. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . INGED NIGHTJAR. very handsome Buho lacteus were responsible for mostunearthly hootings which we heard at times, startlingthe midnight echoes. There were also two kinds ofeagles : the larger, light-breasted and broad-tailed, withshort rounded wings, was the crowned hawk-eagle(Spizaetus coronatus), a fierce and powerful species thatmade magnificent stoops after our startled guinea-fowl—these, however, escaping by tumbling pell-mell amongthe scrub, the eagle buoyantly sweeping upwards with alittle wild cry of vexation. The actual stoop was afine sight—the v/iugs being gradually drawn in at theshoulder till the great bird resembled an arrow-head, and 212 ON SAFARI one heard the rush of air at a quarter-mile (see p. 224).This eas^le, on seeino its orioinal aim to be untrue, hadthe power instantly to check its on-rnsh; then, afterpoising a second, to renew the attack on a differentline. In Somaliland, our hunters told us, this eaglekills their goats, and also attacks young antelopes and. n: (r.\0H
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