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It was indeed a jacamar, of which the plumage shines with a metallic lustre.

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

But, beside these, insects for swallows, swifts, martins, shrikes, thrushes, orioles, sparrows, the beautiful trogans and jacamars, moles, shrews, hedgehogs, and a multitude of others, too numerous to mention, but not too numerous to eat.

Most jacamars are clothed with a plumage of the most beautiful golden, bronze, and steel colours.

The feathered tribes of the island were all represented—tetras, jacamars, pheasants, lories, as well as the chattering cockatoos, parrots, and paroquets.