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Jacamar

noun
1.
Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.





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"Jacamar" Quotes from Famous Books



... interval, showed his head and neck. One of his comrades seemed to feel a little too drenched after his late immersion, for he sat in the sun, spreading out his beautiful plumage of dark metallic-green to dry. The piping call of the cheerful jacamar was changed at intervals for the deep, full note of the red-billed shrike, as he sat hidden in the thicket; bright yellow weaver-birds twittered in crowds on the boughs, whilst from the depth of the shade came the cooing murmur of the turtle-dove. Stark and rigid, like the stem of an old tree, ...
— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams


Words linked to "Jacamar" :   family Galbulidae, Galbulidae, piciform bird


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