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GREAT JACAMAR. 

 (Galbula grandis.) 



G. supra cupreo-aurea, versicolor, subtus ferruginea, gula fascia 



alba, cauda cuneiformi. 

 Jacamar above gilded copper, changeable ; beneath ferruginous; 



throat with a white band ; and tail wedge-shaped. 

 Galbula grandis. Lath. Ind. Orn, l. 245. 2. 

 Alcedo grandis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 458. 

 New Jacammaciri. Pallas. 6. 10.' B. 

 Le Jacammaciri. Vieil. Hist. Nat. des Jacamar s. 8. 6. 

 Great Jacamar. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 605. 2. 



First described by Pallas : size of Picus viridis : 

 beak square ; flat, but not compressed at the sides; 

 twenty-two lines in length : nostrils naked : irides 

 blue : upper parts of the body, with the wing and 

 tail-coverts, secondaries, and head, of a copper 

 colour, varied with gold : primary quills brown : 

 tail-feathers beneath grey, changing to violet ; 

 above green-gold : throat, breast, and belly fer- 

 ruginous : tail longer than the body, and wedge- 

 shaped. Locality unknown. Length twelve inches. 



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