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PARADISE JACAMAR. 

 (Galbula paradisea.) 



G. rectricibus duabus intermediis longissimis, corpore viridi-aureo, 

 jugulo alisque subtus albis. 



Jacamar with the two middle tail-feathers very long ; body green- 

 gold; jugulum and wings beneath white. 



Galbula paradisea. Lath. Inch Orn. 1. 245. 3. 



Alcedo paradisea. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1* 181. 14. — Gmel. Syst, 

 Nat. 1. 458. 



Galbula longicauda. Briss. 4. 89. 2. t. 5./. 2. 



Jacamar a longue queue. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 222. — Buff. 

 PI. Enl. 271. — Vieil. Hist. Nat. des Jacamar s. 5. 3. 



Swallow-tailed Kingsfisher. Edw. 10. 



Paradise Jacamar. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 605. 3. — Lath. Sup. 113. 



This species is not so solitary as the others be- 

 longing to this genus, as it frequents the more 

 open parts of the woods ; is found in pairs, utter- 

 ing a soft whistling kind of note, which is rarefy 

 heard far off: it feeds on insects, and flies farther 

 at one time than G. viridis : it is nearly a foot in 

 length : beak two and a half inches long, black, 

 pointed at the end, square, and compressed on 

 the sides : head of a dull violet brown : throat, 

 fore-part of the neck, and under wing- coverts, 

 white ; the remainder of the plumage dull green, 

 in some lights nearly black, in others with a slight 

 gloss of violet and copper bronze : the two middle 

 tail-feathers six inches in length, exceeding the 

 next by two inches and a quarter : the outer one 

 is only one inch long : legs black : female not so 



v. ix. p. I. 15 



