Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The native name of some hawk or other bird of prey of South America.
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Prince Wied saw the Brazilian eagle urubitinga surrounded by numberless flocks of toucans and cassiques (a bird nearly akin to our rook), which mocked it.
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881
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