JACAMACIRI. 
words in the former language, which BufFon 
could not possibly misunderstand, are — je 
I'ai place entrc les Pivcrds et ies Martins- 
Pecheurs.'*! 
We shall give the entire description from 
Edwards, on whose fidelity we can always 
rely. 
The bill, which is not quite so thick as 
in Kingfishers, is straight, sharp-pointed, and 
of a black colour. It is ridged above and 
beneath ; and, round the basis of the bill, 
both above and beneath, it has black bristles, 
in form of a beard, pointing forward. The 
throat, for an inch space beneath the bill, is 
white. The whole upper side, from bill to 
tail-end, is of a fine green colour, refledling 
blue and golden glosses. The same green 
passes round on the fore-part of the neck, 
beneath the white spot on the throat. The 
green on the crown of the head, quill-feathers 
of the wings, and the tail, are almost blue. 
Hie tall has a faint appearance of transverse 
lines of a darker blue : it is composed of ten 
feathers. The inner coverts of the wings are 
orange- 
