Jacamar

A bird called jacamar is often taken for a kingfisher, but it has no relationship to that tribe. ❋ Charles Waterton (1823)

This area is home to several endangered and endemic birds, including the white-necked parakeet, coppery-chested jacamar, and bicoloured antvireo. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Lories are better food than the jacamar, the flesh of which is rather tough, but it was difficult to persuade ❋ Unknown (2005)

“That must be a jacamar,” said Herbert, trying to get nearer. ❋ Unknown (2005)

“This will be a good opportunity to taste jacamar,” replied the sailor, “if that fellow is in a humor to be roasted!” ❋ Unknown (2005)

It was indeed a jacamar, of which the plumage shines with a metallic luster. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

And there was I, in a yellow gown with green embroideries, gay as a jacamar, jarring hideously on myself. ❋ Max Beerbohm (1914)

The little three-toed jacamar possesses a few of the brilliant hues which adorn his brethren. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

The great or broad-billed jacamar is very like a kingfisher. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

The green jacamar (galbula viridis) is a beautiful bird, about the size of a lark; the upper parts of the body being generally of an exceedingly brilliant, changeable green, glossed with copper-gold. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

The paradise jacamar (galbula paradisea) frequents the more open parts of the forest, and is generally found in pairs. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

The smallest species of jacamar is very common in the dry savannas. ❋ Charles Waterton (1823)

The jacamar has no affinity to the woodpecker or kingfisher (notwithstanding what travellers affirm) either in its haunts or anatomy. ❋ Charles Waterton (1823)