GALBULINiE. 
Jacamerops Cav .* 
Bill lengthened, curved, broad, and rather depressed at the base, with the culmen curved, and slight 
keeled ; the sides sloping to the lateral margins, which are curved to the tip ; the gonys long, and rat ^ 
keeled ; the nostrils basal, lateral, and placed anteriorly in a small groove, with the opening exp oS ° ^ 
Wings moderate and rounded, with the fourth quill the longest. Tail lengthened, broad, and graduate 
Tarsi very short, slender, and mostly concealed by feathers. Toes unequal, the outer anterior toe l°ug c ^ 
than the outer posterior one, the inner posterior toe the shortest of all ; the claws long, compressed, aU 
acute. 
It is in the tropical parts of South America that the species which compose this genus are found. Their habits 
manners are unknown, but are supposed to be similar to those of the foregoing genus. 
anil 
1. J. (jrandis (Gmel.) Levaill. Hist. Nat. Jac. t. 54. Ois. dor. I 
t, 6. — Galbula jacamirici Shaw. ; Lamprotila platyrhyncha Swains. ( 
2. J. Boersii (Ranz.) Levaill. Hist. Nat. Jac. t. 53. 
* Established by Cuvier in 1817. Lamprotila of Mr. Swainson (1837) is synonymous. 
June, 1847- 
