114 A Description of the Birds 
description was taken from a stuffed specimen, in which the 
wings were, probably, so disposed as to conceal the color. 
This species is said invariably to build its nest in the most 
inaccessible positions, and to lay one or two eggs. It is much 
more common than the last described species, even in the 
country in which both occur; and its habitat is far more ex- 
tended, being about all the mountainous ranges, and even 
the majority of the detached hills throughout the colony, and 
the country a long way to the northward of it. 
Aguiua cHoKa. Chok of the Colonists. 
A. supra fulvus aut subfulvus fusco variegatus ; infra fulvus 
pectore et hypochondriis, maculis nigris, longitudinalibus, notatis 
pedes flavi, ungques nigrr. 
Male.—Bill livid blue towards base, dark horn colored at 
tip; cere yellow; eyes reddish brown; front, crown, neck, 
interscapulars, and back, pale tawny, with here and there 
brownish variegations; tail coverts tawny or dirty white; 
shoulders varied tawny and dark brown; scapulars blackish 
brown, more or less distinctly tipt with reddish white; pri- 
mary quill feathers blackish brown, some of them edged on 
outer vanes with tawny red, and all tipt with reddish white ; 
secondaries dark dirty brown, narrowly edged and tipt with 
reddish white; primary quill feathers black; secondaries 
blackish brown on their outer vanes, on the inner grayish 
variegated by many transverse dark bands; tips of all reddish 
tawny; tail rounded, brownish gray, and much mottled by 
partial indistinct dusky black transverse narrow bands; tips 
of feathers all tawny ; under parts tawny with brown varie- 
gations, particularly numerous on the flanks and anterior 
part of the belly; thighs dark ferruginous; toes yellow; 
claws dark horn colored. Length about two feet four inches. 
Female.—Color nearly that of the male, and distributed in 
the same way; size rather larger. 
Young.—Prevailing color chesnut, without any of the brown 
variegations of the older bird; feathers of the head and back 
of neck tipt with light tawny; tail dirty brownish gray, tipt 
with reddish white ; cere and toes dull yellow; claws black ; 
eyes yellow. 
As far as travellers have penetrated, they have found spe- 
cimens of this bird; it is pretty abundant all over the colony, 
and usually resorts to places where carrion exists, to procure 
its food. When an animal dies it is usually one of the first 
visitors, and it eats with avidity till the Vultures arrive, 
when it gives place to them, and remains afterwards a simple 
spectator. The female builds her nest on trees, but I have 
had no means of ascertaining the number of eggs she lays. 
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