LAUGHING FALCON . — Herpetdtheres cachinnans. 
The Laughing Falcon lives in Southern America, and derives its name from 
its curious cry, it sounds like a shrill laugh. It feeds on reptiles and fishes which 
it catches in lakes and rivers. The colour of this bird is nearly white, with a 
broad band of brown that passes over the back, wings, and the space round the 
eyes, and is prolonged into a belt that surrounds the neck, so that the bird looks 
as if it had been wrapped in a brown mantle fastened under the throat. 
