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GREEN JACAMAR. 

 (Galbula viridis. ) 



G. cauda cuneiformi, corpore supra viridi-aureo, subtus rufo, gula 



alba. 

 Jacamar with a wedge-shaped tail ; body of a golden-green 



above, rufous beneath, and throat white. 

 Galbula viridis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 244* 1. , 



Alcedo Galbula. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 181. l5.-Gmel.Syst. Nat. 



1. 45(). 



Galbula. Briss. 4. 86. 1. 

 Jacamiciri. Ediu. 334. 

 Le Jacamar. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 220. 10. Buf. PL Enl. 



238. Vieil. Hist. Nat. des Jacamars. 2. 1. 

 Green Jacamar. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 603. 1. 



THIS splendid bird is about the size of a lark: 

 beak black, slightly incurved, and sharp at the 

 point, about two inches in length : irides blue : 

 prevailing colour on the upper parts of the body, 

 of a most brilliant, changeable green, glossed with 

 copper and gold : chin white ; belly and vent ru- 

 fous : tail wedge-shaped, consisting of ten fea- 

 thers; the two middle feathers very long, and the 

 outer ones much shorter : legs greenish yellow, 

 short and weak : claws black. This bird is some- 

 times found with the belly and throat rufous, and 

 the chin yellowish, instead of white. 



This is a very solitary bird, and it is rarely seen 

 in company with another : it frequents such moist 

 woods as abound with insects on which it feeds : 

 its flight is short and quick ; and it perches on 



