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PARADISE JACAMAR. 

 (Galbula paradisea.) 



G. rectricibus duabus intermediis longissimis, corpore viridi-aureo, 



jugulo alisque subtus albis. 

 Jacamar with the two middle tail-feathers very long ; body green. 



gold ; jugulum and wings beneath white. 

 Galbula paradisea. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 245. 3. 

 Alcedo paradisea. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 181. 14. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1.458. 



Galbula longicauda. Briss. 4. 89. 2. t. 5-f. 2. 

 Jacamar & longue queue. Buff. Hi&t. Nat. Ois. 7 222. Buff. 



PI. Enl. 2J71. VieiL Hist. Nat. des Jacamar s. 5. 3. 

 Swallow-tailed Kingstisher. Edw. 10. 

 Paradise Jacamar. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 605. 3. Lath. Sup. 1 13. 



THIS species is not so solitary as the others be- 

 longing to this genus, as it frequents the more 

 open parts of the woods ; is found in pairs, utter- 

 ing a soft whistling kind of note, which is rarely 

 heard far off: it feeds on insects, and flies farther 

 at one time than G. viridis : it is nearly a foot in 

 length : beak two and a half inches long, black, 

 pointed at the end, square, and compressed on 

 the sides : head of a dull violet brown : throat, 

 fore-part of the neck, and under wing- coverts, 

 white ; the remainder of the plumage dull green, 

 in some lights nearly black, in others with a slight 

 gloss of violet and copper bronze : the two middle 

 tail-feathers six inches in length, exceeding the 

 next by two inches and a quarter : the outer one 

 is only one inch long : legs black : female not so 



v. ix. p. L. 15 



