Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of the subfamily Polyborinæ; the caracaras proper.
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- noun a genus of Falconidae
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"When an animal dies on the plain the gallinaso commences the feast, and then the two species of polyborus pick the bones clean," says Darwin.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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