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Living with trees Winter violets The house is made habitable Red willow Scissor-tail and carrion-hawk Lombardy poplars-Black acacia Other trees The foss or moat Rats A trial of strength with an armadillo Opossums living with a snake Alfalfa field and butterflies Cane brake -Weeds and fennel Peach trees in blossom Paroquets Singing of a field finch Concert-singing in birds Old John Cow- birds' singing Arrival of summer migrants.
In summer I was never tired of watching this tree, since high up in one of the branches, which in those days seemed to me "so close against the sky," a scissor-tail tyrant-bird always had its nest, and this high open exposed nest was a constant attraction to the common brown carrion-hawk, called chimango a hawk with the carrion-crow's habit of perpetually loitering about in search of eggs and fledglings.
Then, as to the vulture, it was not a true vulture nor a strictly true eagle, but a carrion-hawk, a bird the size of a small eagle, blackish brown in colour with a white neck and breast suffused with brown and spotted with black; also it had a very big eagle-shaped beak, and claws not so strong as an eagle's nor so weak as a vulture's.
Carrion-hawk, bright coloured female of. Carus, Prof. V., on the development of the horns in merino sheep; on antlers of red deer. Cassowary, sexes and incubation of the. Castnia, mode of holding wings. Castoreum. Castration, effects of. Casuarius galeatus. Cat, convoluted body in the extremity of the tail of a; sick, sympathy of a dog with a. Cataract in Cebus Azarae.
The consternation caused among birds by its appearance is vastly greater than that produced by any of the raptors I have mentioned: and it is unquestionably very much more destructive to birds, since it preys exclusively on them, and, as a rule, merely picks the flesh from the head and neck, and leaves the untouched body to its jackal, the carrion-hawk.
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