Black-capped donacobius Black-capped donacobius The black-capped donacobius ("Donacobius atricapilla") is a conspicuous, vocal South American bird. It is found in tropical swamps and wetlands in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela; also Panama of Central America. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the black-capped donacobius in his "Ornithologie" based on a specimen that he mistakenly believed had been collected from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. He used the French name "Le merle a test noire de Cap de Bonne Espérance" and the Latin "Merula Atricapilla Capitis
Indians in French Guiana Tobago. Indians in French Guiana Indians in French Guiana are mostly descendants of Tamil indentured labourers from India who live in the French Overseas Department of French Guiana. Between 1838 and 1917 there were 19,276 Indian immigrants to French Guiana. Labour from India began to enter French Guiana beginning in 1862. By the mid-1880s, however, the British stopped shipments of Indians in response to allegations that the French were ill-treating indentured to the Indian workers under their employ. In recent years, immigrants of East Indian origin have been arriving from French Guiana's neighbouring countries such as Guyana, Suriname, and Trinidad