JACAMElloPS. 471 



Genus JACAMEROPS Dnm. 



Jacamerops Dumont, Diet. Sci. Xat. xxiv. p. 77, lS2l2. Tvpe ./. graitdix 

 (Gmel). 



This genus is distinguished bv the wider l)ill.\vliich is incurved, 

 and the larger tail, the feathers of Avhich are broader. U[']ier jiarts 

 bronze-green, under surface for the most })art cliestnut. 



324. Jacamerops aurea. 



Golden Jacamar. 



Alcedo aurea P. L. S. Mlill. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 94, 1776 (Guiana). 

 Lamproptila grandis Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 718, 1848. 

 Jacamerops grandis Salvin, Ibis. 1886, p. 62 (Bartica Grove, Camacusa. 



Merume Mts., Atapurau River); Sclater. Cat. B. Brit. !Mus. xix. 



p. 176, 1891 (Demei-ara). 

 Jacamerops aurea Bi-abourne & Chubb, B. 8. Auier. i. p. 163, no. 1606, 



1912. 



Adult male. General colour above metallic bronze-green, in- 

 cludino; the sides of the face and throat, with rich oolden reflections 

 on the mantle and back, and inclining to blue on the fore part of 

 the head ; primary and secondary quills edged with chestnut on 

 the inner webs towards the base ; a triangular patch of white on 

 tiie fore-neck ; remainder of the under surface chestnut, witli 

 purple reflections on the lower asfjcct of tlie tail-feathers. 



Total length 300 mm., culmeu 45, wing 110, tail 130, tarsus If). 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male, differing only in the 

 absence of tlie white throat-patch, which is replaced by rufuus. 



The birds described were collected on the Mazarnni Hiver. 



Breediur/-sea.so/i. Unknown in British (Tuiana. 



Sest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Kgys. Unde.!scribed from British Guiana. 



liange in JJrlfis/i Guiana. Ituribisi River, Bartica, Mazarnni 

 River, Arawai Hiver, Tiger (Jreek {McConnell collection) ; Bartica, 

 Karnakusa, Kamarang River, Merume Mountains (Whitehi). 



K.rtralimital Range. Colombia, Ecuador, North-east INrii. 



J/ahits. Unrecorded in British (iniana. 



