CASSIN'S ARACARI 



4. Selenidera spectabilis Cassin 

 Gassings Arafari 



Length, 364 mm. (14.30 in.); tail, 123 mm. 

 (4.80 in.). 



Male. Head, neck, chest, breast and abdo- 

 men glossy black with a conspicuous patch of 

 elongated yellow feathers on ear coverts; back, 

 shoulders, wings and rump olive green; tail blue 

 gray, the under surface black; a conspicuous 

 patch of orange yellow on flanks ; thighs chestnut ; 

 under tail coverts red. 



Female. Similar to male but top of head and 

 hindneck chestnut, and ear coverts black, the 

 feathers not elongated. Bare skin around eye 

 is turquoise blue above eye, emerald green in 

 front of eye, orange yellow below and greenish 

 yellow behind, eye. Bill above apple green 

 along ridge, olive along edge ; below olive. Both 

 upper and lower mandible black at the base and 

 at the end. 



An uncommon species confined to dense heavy 

 forest. 



43. Family GALBULID^ 

 The Jacamars 



These are a rather small group of arboreal 

 birds confined to the forests of tropical 

 America, excluding the West Indies. They 

 have a long, tapering, sharply pointed bill 

 with stiff bristles about its base, feet with 



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