PARADISE J AC AM. AR.—Gdlbula Paradinea. 



GREEN JACA'MAn.—Gdlbida viridis. 



of the body is a rich golden green, and the bill and feet are black. The feet are feathered 

 nearly as far as the toes. 



In its habits the Paradise Jacamar is not unlike the trogons and flycatchers, seldom 

 troubling itself to chase its prey through the air, but preferring to sit upon a bough and 

 catch the butterflies as they pass unconsciously near the feet of their destroyer, and then 

 pounce suddenly upon them and secure them in its long bill. So persevering are they 

 in their watchfulness, and so strong is their attachment to the spot where they have taken 

 up their residence, that the locality where they feed can readily be discovered on account 

 of the wings, legs, and other uneatable portions of their prey, which they twist off and 

 throw away before endeavouring to swallow their victim. The Paradise Jacamar is a 

 native of Surinam. 



The Green Jacamar, receives its popular name from the slight preponderance 

 which green holds above the other hues in the colouring of its plumage. 



Nearly all the Jacamars present a very similar arrangement of colours, which is by no 

 means easy to describe, as the feathers are tinted with glowing hues of green, azure, 

 gold, and metallic red, all of which seem to have been scattered at random over the 

 plumage, and to have become so intermixed that the eye fails to separate them, or to 

 assign any particular locality to any particular colour. Indeed, the plumage of the 

 Jacamars is a vciy Turkey-carpet of tints, all the colours being very bright but without 

 any definite arrangement ; so that, although clad in gorgeous raiment which nearly equals 

 the plumage of the humming-birds in its bright effulgence when examined feather by 

 feather, the Jacamars are by no means conspicuous birds, and at a little distance do not 

 appear nearly so handsome as our English starling. 



