Nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter.
1 The guacharo quits the cavern at nightfall, especially when the moon shines.
2 The guacharo builds a solid nest like a cheese with a concave top.
3 The guacharo is of the size of our fowls.
4 This fat is known by the name of butter or oil (manteca, or aceite) of the guacharo .
5 Our Alpine crow builds its nest near the top of Mount Libanus, in subterranean caverns, nearly like the guacharo .
6 The plumage of the guacharo is of a dark bluish grey, mixed with small streaks and specks of black.
7 A comparison of the beaks of the guacharo and the goatsucker serves to denote how much their habits must differ.
8 The nocturnal birds of Europe are lean, because, instead of feeding on fruits, like the guacharo , they live on the scanty produce of their prey.
9 The Indians enter the Cueva del Guacharo once a year, near midsummer.
10 The Cueva del Guacharo is pierced in the vertical profile of a rock.
11 There was another Guacharo cave in the Monos channel, more under the lee.
12 From this point we perceived towards the left the great pyramid of Guacharo .
13 It opens into a lateral valley, which terminates at the Sierra del Guacharo .
14 As the roof became lower the cries of the guacharos were more and more shrill.
15 But what renders this spot eminently picturesque, is the aspect of the Sierra del Guacharo .
16 Now, it is these very Guacharo birds which are to me the most wonderful part of the story.
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