chiquera

plural chiqueras

1. obsoleterareThe red-necked falcon (Falco chicquera).

   Falco chicquera, the chiquera falcon. This small bird of prey has the lower mandible formed like the two preceding.

   1810, John Wiles, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, volume 7, page 194

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   But these slight differences will not justify us in considering the West African chiquera as a true species distinct from the Indian true chiquera; it is only a subspecies of the latter true species.

   1852, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, and Geology, page 452

   should have entirely escaped observation until the close of 1871, when specimens were received both by Lord Walden and myself. I considered it nearly allied to the Merlins — in fact, a link between the Merlins and the Chiqueras — and this is the situation which I should still assign to it.

   1875, Stray Feathers, volume 3