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not only a decided affinity to these birds, but also 

 with the Meropidae : thereby admirably uniting the 

 two conterminous fissirostral groups. 



Sp. 1. Ga. paradissea. Steph. v. ix.^;. 225. 



Sp. 2. Ga. viridis. Steph. v. ix.p. 223.pl. 39. 



Sp. 3. Ga. rubricollis. Steph. v. ix.p. 224. 



Sp. 4. Ga. albirostris. Steph. v. ix. p. 226. 



Sp. 5. Ga. ceycoides. Zool. Journ. (Such.) ii. 112. 



Ga? supra viridi-atra, suhtus alba; capite, gulaque nigro-brunneis 



ochraceo-lineatis ; abdominis lateribus crissoque nigro^fuscis ; 



pedibus tridactylis. 

 Jacamar ? above dark-green, beneath white ; with the head and 



throat black-brown striped with ochraceous ; the sides of the 



abdomen and the vent black-brown 3 the feet three-toed. 



Length, from the forehead to the tip of the tail 

 five inches and a half: head black-brown; with the 

 frontal feathers ochraceous ; those of the crown and 

 cheeks black-brown dashed with ochraceous in the 

 middle : those of the throat ochraceous striped with 

 brown : the quills are greenish-brown, paler beneath, 

 with the inner webs whitish at the base : the tail- 

 feathers are dark green, brown beneath, margined 

 at the tip with a very narrow rufous band : beak and 

 legs black. This anomalous but interesting species 

 was discovered by Dr. Such in Brazil, and described 

 by him as above quoted. It beautifully unites the 

 Jacamars with the Kingsfishers, and may probably 

 at some future period be elevated to the rank of a 

 distinct genus, with as much propriety as the pre- 

 ceding genus has been detached from the Kingsfishers. 



