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I suspect that all the male jacamars hitherto discovered have this distinctive mark.

From Wanderings in South America by Waterton, Charles

Among the characteristic members of the feathered tribe in these forests are the jacamars, as they are found in no other part of the world.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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

From The Secret of the Island by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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.

From The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science A Discourse by Denton, William

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

From The Mysterious Island by Verne, Jules