CLASS TI. AVES: ORDER 1. RAPTORES, 49 
THE CARACARA EAGLE. 
The Chimango Caracara, PoUhorus 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 foimd only in tropical America. Other species 
are the Long-winged Caracara, C. megaloijterus^ and the Southern Caracara, G. 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, /. leucogaster ; the Falco 
aqidlinus of Gmelin : it is sixteen inches long, and is called Captain of the Big-hills by the na- 
tives, because some of its habits resemble those 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 : Daptrius^ 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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