jacamar

There are four species of jacamar in Demerara; they are all beautiful; the largest, rich and superb in the extreme.

The road was as deserted as all that part of the Jacamar Wood which lay between the Mercy and the lake.

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.

A bird called jacamar is often taken for a kingfisher, but it has no relationship to that tribe.

The large jacamar is pretty common about two hundred miles up the River Demerara.