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yellow band ; a black band from the base of the bill, through the eye, 

 continued down the neck below the yellow and connected with the 

 one on the opposite side to form a broad breast band ; the remaining 

 underparts white; the short, pointed tail feathers brown; the other 

 parts much as in the breeding dress, but the wing coverts more or less 

 barred with brown. 



METOPIDIUS INDICUS (Latham) 



Bronze-winged Jacana 



[Parra] mdica Latham, Index ornithologicus, vol. 2, 1790, p. 765 ("in Indiae 

 paludosis"). 



Metopidius indicus, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1916, p. 142 

 (Chiang Rai, Nong Mae Rua) ; Ibis, 1920, p. 765 ("Throughout the whole 

 country"). — de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 5S3 

 (Chiang Rai). — Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 170 

 (Chiang Mai) ; 1936, p. 81 (Chiang Mai). 



At Chiang Mai the bronze- winged jagana was rather more common 

 that the preceding species ; during the driest months it was very local 

 in distribution, and, for no obvious reason, I never saw it in October 

 and November. I found it common at Phayao in August and at 

 Ban Nong Khiat in November and December. I have collected it 

 at Chiang Rai in January and at Chom Thong in November and 

 January. 



Two downy young taken at Chiang Mai, September 5, 1930, were 

 accompanied by a male with greatly enlarged gonads. The latter's 

 stomach contained vegetable matter, mud, and tiny stones; another of 

 my specimens had been feeding on small snails. 



The breeding male had the irides brown ; the frontal lappet gray ; 

 the bill greenish yellow, reddish at the base ; the feet and toes greenish 

 gray. The downy young had the irides brown ; the bill gray, pinkish 

 at the base; the feet and toes dark gray ringed with buffy ridges. 

 Nonbreeding adults had the irides brown; the lappet and basal half 

 of the culmen slaty green; the maxilla olive-yellow with an orange- 

 yellow patch near the rictus; the mandible with the basal half pure 

 yellow, otherwise olive-yellow ; the feet and toes dull green ; the claws 

 slaty green. 



The adult has a white supercilium from the eye to the nape; the 

 crown glossy green ; the upper back glossy blue and purple ; the back, 

 scapulars, and wing coverts glossy olive-bronze ; the quills and under 

 wing coverts black glossed with green ; the rump and upper tail coverts 

 chestnut glossed with blue; the under tail coverts and tail chestnut; 

 the remaining underparts black glossed with green. The immature 

 has the crown rufous ; the tail light rufous barred with blackish ; the 

 throat, a short supercilium, and the sides of the head white ; the breast 

 and lower neck fawn; the remaining underparts white; other parts 

 much as in the adult. 



