Meaning of chiquera | Babel Free

Definitions

The red-necked falcon (Falco chicquera).

obsolete, rare

Examples

“Falco chicquera, the chiquera falcon. This small bird of prey has the lower mandible formed like the two preceding.”

“But these slight differences will not justify us in considering the West African chiquera as a true species distinct from the Indian true chiquera; it is only a subspecies of the latter true species.”

“should have entirely escaped observation until the close of 1871, when specimens were received both by Lord Walden and myself. I considered it nearly allied to the Merlins — in fact, a link between the Merlins and the Chiqueras — and this is the situation which I should still assign to it.”

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