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J A C A N A.
None o f the authors above referred to mention the fpur on
the wing j but we may conclude that, as it is feen in all the
others, this is not without it.
Inhabits Brafil.
Parra variabilis, Lin. Syft. i. p. 260. 4.
Le Chirurgien varié, Brtf Orn. v. p. 129. j .
Le Jacana varié, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 192.
----------- du Brefil, PI. Enl. 846.
Spur-winged Water Hen, Edm. pi. 48.— Bancr. Guiau. p. 17$.
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf»
J ^ E N G T H nine inches. Bill fourteen lines long, orange
yellow : on the forehead a flap o f red fkin, laying back on
the head, and divided at the hind part: crown of the head' brown,
marked with fpots of a darker colour: hind part o f the neck the
fame, but very deep : above the eye a line o f whltë, pafling
down on each fide the neck; accompanying this a black one,
which fprings from the bill, and paffes through the eye : fidès of
the head, throat, fore part of the neck, breaft, belly, thighs, and
under tail coverts, white, with a few reddilh fpots on the fides o f
the belly and bafe of the thighs :■ on the fore part of the wing
a yellow fpur : fcapulars pale brown : leffer wing coverts purplifh
chefnut; the middle ones brown ; the greater black : the four
quills next the body are brown; all the others green, margined
with black at the ends; and the outer one the whole length, on
the outer web: legs furnifhed with long toes as in all the
others ; colour of them blueilhalh.
One of thefe, which came under my infpeiftion in a collection
from Cayenne, was rather fmaller: had thé upper parts much
paler t '
V ariety.
paler: over the eye a ftreak of white, palling no further, and not
accompanied by a black one: hind part of the neck dulky black:
it had only a rudiment of a fpur: and the red caruncte on the
forehead was lels, and laid back on the forehead, I conjecture
this to differ either in fex or age from the other.
The fpecies above-mentioned inhabits Brafil; and is faid to be
plentiful about Carthagena, in South America.
Le Chirurgien de l’lfle de Lujon, Son. Voy. p. 82. tab. 45c
F A T H E R lefs than a Lapwing. Bill of a greyilh colour,
ftrait, and a little enlarged at the end : top of the head deep
brown : over the eye a ftripe of white, palling down on each
fide the neck, and changing into pale yellow behind the eye:
through the eye another ftripe of an alh-colour accompanies the
firft quite down to the wing: the back is brown : the under
parts, from chin to vent, white, except a large fpot of brown on
the breaft : at the bend of the wing is a fharp fpur: the leffer
wing coverts are white, the others pale brown, tranfverfely barred
with' black : the fecond quills white; the prime ones black:
from the three laff of thefe arile three naked lhafts, two inches
long, and ending in a launce-fhaped feathered point; they fpring
from the middle of the lhaft of the feather to which they belong,
the lhaft appearing as divided or branching into two at that
part: the toes and: claws are very long, as in the others, and of a
dulky black.
This is found in the illand of Manilla; chiefly frequenting the-
low moift places, borders of the fea, lakes, and rivers; and has
the manners ufual to others of this genus.
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