396 AVES. 



P. senea,(l) with a black body reflecting blue and violet tints; 



mantle bronze-green; rump and tail blood-red j anterior quills 



of the wing green; a white streak behind the eye. Its spurs are 



blunt and small. 



Others have been discovered in the East, in which this membrane 



is deficient, and Avhich are otherwise remarkable for some singular 



differences in the proportions of their quills. 



F. chinensis; Jacana a longue queue; Encycl. Method., Orn. 

 pi. 61, f. 1; Vieill. Gal. 265. (The Long-tailed Jacana.) Brown; 

 head, throat, front of the neck and coverts of the wings white; 

 back of the neck furnished with silky feathers of a golden yel- 

 low; a small pediculated appendage to the end of some of the 

 wing-quills; four quills of the tail black, and longer than the 

 body.- The Chirurgien de Lugon of Sonnerat, (P. luzoniensis,) is 

 the young of the same: independently of some difference in the 

 colours, it has not yet acquired its long tail. 

 The East produces others Avhich are tufted, and in which the spur 

 on the wing is deficient, P. gallinacea, Tern. 464. 



Palamedea, Lin. 



The Kamichi resemble the Jacanas, but on a very large scale, in 

 the two strong spurs of each of their wings, in their long toes and 

 strong nails, that of the thumb in particular, which is long and 

 straight as in the Larks; but their beak, whose aperture is small, is 

 but slightly compressed, and is not inflated; the upper mandible, 

 also, is somewhat arcuated. Their legs are reticulated. The species 

 known, 



P. cornuta, L., Enl. 451; Vieill. Gal. 261; Jlnhima in Brazil; 

 Camoicche at Cayenne, &c. is larger than the Goose, blackish, 

 with a red spot on the shoulder, and a singular appendage on 

 top of the head, consisting of a long, slender, mobile and horny 

 stem. There are no membranes between the toes. This bird is 

 found in the inundated places of South America, and has a very 

 loud cry. It is a strict monogamist. It has been said that it 

 hunts reptiles, but though its stomach is but slightly muscular, 

 it rarely feeds on any thing but aquatic plants and seeds.(2) 

 A distinct genus has been made of another, 



Chauna, Illig.(3) 

 Parra chavaria, L. ; Clidia of Paraguay, Azzar.; Col. 219; 



(1) VielUot has changed this specific name iwio melanchloris, Gal. 264. It is 

 also the P. superciliosa, Horsf. Jav. 



(2) Bajon., Mem. sui- Cayenne, II, 284. 



(3) Vieillot has changed this name into Opistolophcs. 



