Crossword-Solution: TAPACOLO 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

CHAPTER XII CENTRAL CHILE Valparaiso--Excursion to the Foot of the Andes--Structure of the Land--Ascend the Bell of Quillota--Shattered Masses of Greenstone--Immense Valleys--Mines--State of Miners--Santiago--Hot-baths of Cauquenes--Gold-mines--Grinding-mills--Perforated Stones--Habits of the Puma--El Turco and Tapacolo--Humming-birds.

The Tapacolo is very crafty: when frightened by any person, it will remain motionless at the bottom of a bush, and will then, after a little while, try with much address to crawl away on the opposite side.

What a succession of chances, [3] or what changes of level must have been brought into play, thus to spread these small animals throughout this broken archipelago! In all parts of Chiloe and Chonos, two very strange birds occur, which are allied to, and replace, the Turco and Tapacolo of central Chile.

CHAPTER XII Valparaiso — Excursion to the foot of the Andes — Structure of the land — Ascend the Bell of Quillota — Shattered masses of greenstone — Immense valleys — Mines — State of miners — Santiago — Hot-baths of Cauquenes — Gold-mines — Grinding-mills — Perforated stones — Habits of the Puma — El Turco and Tapacolo — Humming-birds.

The TAPACOLO (_Pteroptochus megapodius_) represents another group of South American Ant Thrushes, in many respects resembling the Australian Lyre Birds, and particularly characterised by the very unusual development of the feet.