The jacamar has no affinity to the woodpecker or kingfisher (notwithstanding what travellers affirm) either in its haunts or anatomy.
The jacamar lives entirely on insects, but never goes in search of them.
The Indians informed me that one species of jacamar lays its eggs in the wood-ants' nests, which are so frequent in the trees of Guiana, and appear like huge black balls.
The large jacamar is pretty common about two hundred miles up the River Demerara.
The smallest species of jacamar is very common in the dry savannas.
Early in January the jacamar is in fine plumage for the cabinet of the naturalist.
A bird called jacamar is often taken for a kingfisher, but it has no relationship to that tribe.
At one point, I recollect, a gold-green Jacamar sat on a log and looked at me till I was within five yards of her.
No instance seems to be known of any jacamar having been kept in confinement or brought to this country alive; but expert aviculturists are often not communicative, and many importations of rare birds have doubtless passed unrecorded.
The great or broad-billed jacamar is very like a kingfisher.
The paradise jacamar (galbula paradisea) frequents the more open parts of the forest, and is generally found in pairs.
The little three-toed jacamar possesses a few of the brilliant hues which adorn his brethren.
There are four species of jacamar in Demerara; they are all beautiful; the largest, rich and superb in the extreme.
As to the forest, including Jacamar Wood, as well as the forests of the Far West, it extended as far as the eye could reach.
The road was as deserted as all that part of the Jacamar Wood which lay between the Mercy and the lake.
The soil sloped gradually from Mount Franklin to the east coast, and it was to be feared that, in spite of the thick Jacamar Wood, the torrent would reach the plateau of Prospect Heights.
Towards seven in the morning the position was no longer tenable by the colonists, who accordingly took shelter in the borders of Jacamar Wood.
They therefore waited impatiently for the moment when Herbert might be moved without danger from his wound, and they were determined to make this move, although the communication through Jacamar Wood was very difficult.
As to the Mercy, it was more directly fed from ample springs concealed under the cover of Jacamar Wood, and it was by springs of this nature, spreading in a thousand streamlets, that the soil of the Serpentine Peninsula was watered.
Just then, a stone cleverly thrown by the boy, struck the creature on the wing, but the blow did not disable it, and the jacamar ran off and disappeared in an instant.
They could hear the tempest raging in Jacamar Wood, which would surely suffer from it.
But Jacamar Wood was full of game; kangaroos and boars abounded, and the hunters iron-tipped spears and bows and arrows did wonders.
It was, in fact, towards the corral that the lava was rushing as the new crater faced the east, and consequently the fertile portions of the island, the springs of Red Creek and Jacamar Wood, were menaced with instant destruction.
As yet, they only hunted in Jacamar Wood, on the left of the river, because, for want of a bridge or boat, the Mercy had not yet been crossed.
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