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'The Guacharo quits the cavern at nightfall, especially when the moon shines.

It is almost the only frugivorous nocturnal bird that is yet known; the conformation of its feet sufficiently shows that it does not hunt like our owls.

It feeds on very hard fruits, as the Nutcracker and the Pyrrhocorax.

The latter nestles also in clefts of rocks, and is known under the name of night-crow.

The Indians assured us that the Guacharo does not pursue either the lamellicorn insects, or those phalaenae which serve as food to the goat-suckers.