jacapa

Updated: May 18, 2025

The females of both are dull in colour, but the male of Jacapa has a beautiful velvety purple and black plumage, the beak being partly white, whilst the same sex in Episcopus is of a pale blue colour, with white spots on the wings.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons

Whilst loitering about at such times in a half-oblivious mood, thinking of home, the song of this bird would create for the moment a perfect illusion. Numbers of tanagers frequented the fruit and other trees in our garden. The two principal kinds which attracted our attention were the Rhamphoccelus Jacapa and the Tanagra Episcopus.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons