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X. Postscript. 



Since the preceding Introduction was put into type I have acquired additional information 

 on two interesting points as regards the Jacamars. 



Messrs. Salvin and Godman have received from one of their correspondents, Mr. Joyner, at 

 present on the Eio Clara, in the province of Goyaz, Brazil, specimens of Galhula rufo-viridis 

 with an accompanying note calling their attention to the fact that this bird (which Mr. Joyner 

 calls a Humming-bird, no doubt as being the " Clmpa-fior do Mato " of the Brazilians) fishes in 

 the forest-streams " like a Kingfisher." Mr. Joyner asserts that this Jacamar " catches small 

 fishes in the water and eats them." This is certainly not impossible, but, if true, is quite a new 

 fact in the economy of the Jacamars. 



Messrs. Salvin and Godman have also recently added to their collection two skins of a 

 Jacamar from the Balzar mountains, in Ecuador, which are referable to Galhula melanogenia. 

 Not only does this fact show an unanticipated extension of the previously known range of the 

 Central-American Jacamars, which had only previously been traced as far south as Chiriqui *, 

 but it is of still greater interest as being the first instance of the occurrence of any species of 

 Jacamar in Western Ecuador. 



* See Mr. Salvin's remarks quoted, infrci, p. 20. 



