Crossword-Solution: CARACARAS 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The Caracaras are, from their structure, placed among the eagles: we shall soon see how ill they become so high a rank.

Where prey is scarce and difficult to capture, the puma, after satisfying its hunger, invariably conceals the animal it has killed, covering it over carefully with grass and brushwood; these deer, however, had all been left exposed to the caracaras and foxes after a portion of the breast had been eaten, and in many cases the flesh had not been touched, the captor having satisfied itself with sucking the blood.

The caracaras are crafty, and steal numbers of eggs; they also attempt, together with the chimango, to pick off the scabs from the sore backs of horses and mules.

All seat themselves in the stern-sheets, and wait for the diggers; who soon after appear, conducting their prisoners, the pirate crew of the _Condor_; short four left behind--a banquet for the _caracaras_! CHAPTER SEVENTY NINE.

When the Pelicans are returning from their expeditions with pouches filled with fish, the Caracaras attack them until they disgorge, and then alight to devour the stolen prey.