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feathers have a lightish ground, marked with narrow brown bars for the greater 
part of their length, but near the end show a broad blackish band tipped with 
white. The iris of the large eye is greyish brown, the beak is bluish white at the 
base, becoming lighter at the tip; the cere and a bare space round the eye are 
orange tinged with red; and the feet are pale yellow. In young birds the top of 
the head and cheeks are dark brown; the sides and back of the neck brown with 
FALKLAND ISLAND AND CHIMACHIMA CARACARAS (J nat. size). 
yellowish white streaks; the feathers of the back brown, with straw-coloured or 
fulvous margins ; and the feathers of most of the under-parts ochrey coloured, with 
brown margins in the region of the chest, whereby a general striped appearance is 
produced. The chimango (/. chimango ) of the southern portion of South America 
and Tierra del Fuego, differs by having the under-parts and under wing-coverts of 
a brownish ochre-colour in the adult; the feathers of the under surface of the 
body having dark brown shaft stripes. 
Writing of the habits of these birds, which he collectively designates carrion- 
