YELLOW-HEADED CARACARA 



Exceedingly noisy, having a peculiar and dis- 

 agreeable cry resembling the word ca-ca-o. 



2. Milvago chimachima cordata Bangs 

 Yellow-headed Caracara 



Milvago chimachima STONE, Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci., 1918, p. 248. 



Sexes alike. Length 405 mm. (16.00 in.); 

 tail 185 mm. (7.20 in.). Above brown excepting 



FIG. 22. Milvago chimachima 



head and neck, the feathers of back and wing 

 coverts with ashy margins, wing quills with a 

 conspicuous cream patch; tail two thirds buffy 

 white barred with brown, terminally brown; 

 head, neck all around, and under parts including 

 under wing coverts, buffy white; a brown streak 

 in continuation of eye. Bill ivory; bare skin 

 yellow. 



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