MILVAGO CHIMANGO 7 



Personally I would describe tlie call as a sonorous 

 " K-r-u-h^^ uttered twice, which is well assimilated by 

 " Caracara," if properly accented. 



Durnford says it feeds indiscriminately on " dead fish, 

 lizards, carcases of horses, cattle, sheep, or other carrion, 

 and sometimes is said to pick out the eyes of very young 

 sheep." A nest found by him in the middle of a large swamp 

 was '* a massive structure, composed of sticks and lined with 

 a little coarse hair and sheep's wool, and was full of putrid 

 bits of horse-skin and bones of fish ; it measured 5 feet round 

 and \\ deep, and contained three young ones about a week old." 



At Sara Settlement, on October 10th, I took two eggs 

 from a nest built on poles put up gable-wise on the open flats, 

 to ventilate primitively made hay. The nest was of huge 

 dimensions, built chiefly of tangled masses of sheep's wool. The 

 eggs are exceedingly handsome. They are of short ovate form, 

 with smooth shell, without gloss, ground colour pinkish cream, 

 spotted and blotched over the entire surface with reddish brown, 

 the spots in places confluent over a considerable portion of the 

 surface. They measure respectively 2*45 by 2'0 and 2*4 by 1*95 

 inches. 



MILVAGO CHIMANGO (Vieillot) 



ClliinangO, Azara, Pdxaros, Paraguay y La Plata, i, p. 47, 1802. 

 PolyborUS clliniangO, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., y, p. 260, 



1816 ; B'Orhigny, Voy. Amer. Merid., Ois., p. 60, pi. ii, 1835. 

 MilvagO ChimangO, Qould and Darwin, Voy. " Beagle,'' Birds, p. 13, 



1841 ; Gray and Mitchell, Genera Birds, i, pi. v, 1849 ; Durnford, Ibis, 



p. 40, 1877 ; Sclater and Hudson, Argentine Orn., ii, p. 74, 1889 ; 



Oustalet, Mis. Sci. Gap Horn, Ois., p. 15, 1891. 

 MilvagO pezoporus, Gould and Darwin, Voy. " Beagle," Birds, 



p. 14, 1841. 

 Ibycter Chimaugo, Sharps, Gat. Birds Brit. Mus., i, p. 41, 1874. 



Hahitat. — Brazil, Bolivia, and Chili, to Tierra del Fue^o. 



