JACAMAR. 



dusky, the lesser as the back ; tail cuneiform, the two middle feathers 

 gilded green like the back, and three inches and a half in length ; 

 all the others fine rufous, the outer one two and three quarters long ; 

 wings reach one fourth on the tail ; legs dusky. 



Inhabits Cayenne. One of these is in my own collection, and I 

 have seen others in various Cabinets of Natural History. 



4— PARADISE JACAMAR. 



Galbula Paradisea, Ind. Orn. i. 245. Lin. i. 181. Gm. Lin. i. 458. 



longicauda, Bris. iv. 89. t. 5. f. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 66. Gerin. t. 185. Spalowsck. 



Vog. iii. t. 18. Gen. Zool.ix. 225. 

 Ispida Surinamensis, Klein 36. 9. 



Jacamar a longue Queue, Buf. vii. 222. PI. enl. 271. Ois. dor. (Jacam.) 5. pi. 3. 

 Swallow-tailed Kingfisher, Edw. pi. 10. 

 Paradise Jacamar, Gen. Syn. ii. 605. Id. Sup. 113. 



SIZE of a Lark ; length eleven inches and a half. Bill almost 

 two inches and a half long and black, much pointed at the end, and 

 square in shape, somewhat compressed on the sides ; head dull violet 

 brown ; throat, neck before, and under wing coverts white; the rest 

 of the plumage dull green, very deep, and in some lights appearing 

 almost black, in others glossed with violet and copper bronze ; the 

 tail composed of twelve feathers of unequal lengths, the two middle 

 ones six inches long, the next three inches and three quarters, the 

 outer one only an inch ; legs black. 



The female differs, in having the colours less brilliant. I have 

 observed one of these birds with the crown brown, and the colours 

 every where more dull except the wings, which were very brilliant 

 coppery green : most probably a female or young bird. A specimen 

 of this was in the collection of Mr. Bullock. 



