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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 



Fig. 23. 



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 



