PLATE XXXIX. 



This rare bird was probably unknown to Dr. Latham at the 

 time he published his Synopsis of birds, as the description of the 

 species first occurs in the Supplement to that work. It is there 

 described from a specimen in the Museum of Dr. Hunter: and 

 subsequently it appears in his Index Ornithologicus. There is 

 besides this specimen of the Hunterian Collection, a specimen of the 

 same species in the French National Museum, the figure of which 

 has been pubhshed by Vieillot. He calls it Venetou, observing that 

 it is so denominated in common with the other kinds of Jacamar, by 

 the savages of Guiana, a country which this tribe of birds inhabit. 

 Dr. Latham describes it as a native of South America, we apprehend 

 it must be a scarce species: the specimen dehneated is in our own 

 collection. 



