JACAMACIRI. 
orange-colour. The quills within-side are 
blackish : their tips, oiitwardlv, are dusky, 
as is the under side of the tail. The belly, 
thighs, and coverts beneath the tail, are of a 
reddish orange-coloui . The legs and feer, 
which are made like those of Woodpeckers, 
but much weaker in proportion to ihe bird, 
are of a brownish fiesh-colour. 
" This very curious bird," adds Edwards, 
is one of those taken by Earl Ferrers. It is 
figured and described by Marcgrave : but, 1 
believe, his was the female ; for he makes the 
belly, Scc. of the colour of vellow wax ; 
whereas I make it reddish orange. See it's 
descriotion in Wiiluo;hbv, and it's fiorure. 
Brisson has also li2:ured and described this 
bird, in his Ornithology, Vol. IV. It is a bird 
of Brasll, and th.e warm parts of South Ame- 
rica. Marcgrave — and Brisson, I suppose, 
from him — says, that it has blue eves." 
Biifton says — " This bird is about the size 
of a Lark, and it's wiiole length is six and a 
half inches. The bill is an inch and five 
lines ; the tail cnlv two inciic.s yet it piojecls 
an 
