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America. This most interesting bird is said to be a 

 scavenger, and to prey upon carrion, but, while it may 

 do so when pressed by great hunger, it is claimed by 

 those who have most closely studied its habits that it 

 generally feeds upon the weak and the wounded, 

 whether birds or mammals. It is the torment of the 

 hunter, from whom it snatches the birds which he may 

 have brought down before he is able to retrieve them. 

 Hudson devotes many pages to accounts of the habits 

 of this rather fine-looking hawk and I was very glad to 

 see it in its native haunts. 



After leaving Selva the land became more and more 

 cultivated, until at Valdez we reached a region, which is 

 one of the garden-spots of the world. Finer fields of 

 wheat and clover, of flax and maize, are not to be seen 

 anywhere upon the globe. Shortly after leaving Valdez 

 the night came on, and the next morning I found myself 

 in Buenos Aires ready for breakfast, and glad soon 

 afterwards to meet some of my friends, who called 

 upon me, and congratulated me upon my safe return 

 from my little excursion, in which I had in one way or 

 another covered nearly fifteen hundred miles of travel. 



