There swept the bearded "lamvanger," on broad extended wings.

There shrieked the great "Caffre eagle," and side by side with him the short-tailed and singular "bateleur." There, too, were hawks of different sizes and colours, and kites cutting through the air, and crows and ravens, and many species of _insectivora_.

But far more numerous than all the rest could be seen the little _springhaan-vogel_, a speckled bird of nearly the size and form of a swallow.

Myriads of these darkened the air above--hundreds of them continually shooting down among the insects, and soaring up again, each with a victim in its beak.

"Locust-vultures" are these creatures named, though not vultures in kind.