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THE CARACARA EAGLE. 



The Chimango Caracara, Poliborus Chimango^ inhabits the same country as the preceding, 

 but is much more rare ; it is also smaller, being thirteen to fifteen inches long. 



The Chimachima Caracara, P. Chimachima, is fifteen inches long, and is of a dirty yellow 

 above ; lives wholly on dead animal matter, and is found only in tropical America. Other species 

 are the Long-winged Caracara, C megalopterus, and the Southern Caracara, C, australis. 



Genus IBYCTER : Ihycter. — This term signifies trumpeter, in allusion to the deafening cry of 

 the only species, the Red-throated Falcon or White-bellied Ibycter, /. Icucogaster ; the Falco 

 aquilinus of Gmelin : it is sixteen inches long, and is called Captain of the Big-bills by the na- 

 tives, because some of its habits resemble tiiose of the toucans. It is of a blue-black above, the 

 belly and rump of a pure white. It is found in flocks in the forests of Guiana and Brazil. 



Genus DAPTRIUS : Daptritis, includes a single species, the Black Caracara, D. ater, or 

 Falco aterinus of Temminck. Its length is fourteen or fifteen inches, and it is a native of Guiana 

 and Brazil. This species is included in the genus Ibycter in the Catalogue of the British Museum, 

 under the name of /. ater. 



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