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Genus XXII. JACAMAR, 



N*i. Green Jacamar. N* a. Great J. 



Var. A. Long-tailed D". 3. Paradife J. 



ILL long, ftrait, fharp-pointed, quadrangular. 

 Noftrils oval, placed near the bafe of the bill. 



Tongue fhort, pointed. 



Legs feathered before, as far as the toes. 



The toes placed two before and two behind. 



This genus is much allied to the Kingsfijher, but the toes are 

 differently placed. The food of the Jacamar is likewife different, 

 as it feeds on infects alone, and frequents moift woods ; while the 

 Kingsfifaer tribe inhabits dreams of water for the moft part, and 

 has a peculiar addrefs in fifhing for the young fry of fijh, oh 

 which it feeds. We are not perfectly acquainted with the man- 

 ners and ceconomy of the genus here treated of ; and in refpect to 

 the neft and eggs, nothing whatever is known about them. 



I believe there are not more than three fpecies yet known. 



Alcedo Galbula, Lin. Syji. i. p. 182. N° 15. 



Le Jacamar, Brif. orn. iv. p. 86. N° I. pi. 5. f. I, — Buf. oif. vii. p. 220. GREEN 



pi. 10.-P/. enl. 238. - ' JACAMAR. 



Jacamaciri, Rati Syn. p. 44. N° 3. — Will. orn. p. 139. t. zz.—Ednu, pi. 334. 

 Cupreous Jacamar, Gen. of Birds, p. 60. pi. 3. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



'T^HIS beautiful bird is nearly of the fize of a Lark, and mea- Description. 

 fures in length eight inches and three quarters. The bill is 



4 H 2 black, 



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