chiquera

English

Noun

chiquera (plural chiqueras)

1. (obsolete, rare) The red-necked falcon (Falco chicquera).
   • 1810, John Wiles, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, volume 7, page 194:

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

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

     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.

   • 1875, Stray Feathers, volume 3:

     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.

French

Verb

chiquera

1. third-person singular simple future of chiquer