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curving claws pierce the back or head of their victim.
With a few careless movements of the head and violent
jerks they pluck fiercely at the feathers or hair of their
prey, but only in one little spot. Then, shifting their
claws, they take another sure grip, and pick away first
on one side and then on the other, and in this way they
devour their victim alive, strip by strip.

A Hunting Eagle.

The 27th October was to be our last day on the
Yarkand-daria, for in the evening our guides assured us we should
reach the mouth of the Aksu-daria. It is below the
confluence of these two streams that the name Tarim is given

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