78 TYPES OF ANIMAL LIFE 



more screaming, though hornless, form, called the chauna. 

 Another is the cariama, a creature so puzzling that while 

 some ornithologists regard it as a sort of hawk, others con- 

 sider it a kind of bustard. There also are vultures such as 



THE CHAUNA. 



the huge condor of the Andes and the king vulture 

 both of which are so exceptional in structure that some 

 of the most advanced of our naturalists altogether deny 

 their claim to be considered vultures at all. South 



