82 



Key to the Species. 



a. Back and wing-coverts rufous ; under surface of 



body blackish ; sides of body and under wing- 

 coverts rufous, all the inner secondaries being 

 rufous like the back jacana, p. 82. 



b. Back and wing-coverts deep maroon chestnut ; 



inner secondaries with blackish centres, the 

 longer ones entirely purplish black ; under 

 surface of body blackish, dark maroon on the 

 sides of the body, axillaries, and under wing- 

 coverts ; the marginal coverts and the lower 

 primary-coverts black melanopygia, p. 84. 



c. Entirely greenish black above and below, includ- 



ing the inner secondaries and under wing- 

 coverts nigra, p. 84. 



1. Jacana jacana. 



The Spur-winged Water-hen of Brazil, Edzcards, Gleanings, iii. 

 p. 805, pi. 357 (1764). 



Le Chirurgien brun, Briss. Orn. v.. p. 125, pi. xi. tier. 1 (1760). 



Parra jacana, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 259 (176(3) ; Gm. S. N. i. p. 707 

 (1788) ; Lath. Lnd. Orn. ii. p. 762 (1790) ; Vieill. N. Diet. xvi. 

 p. 446 (1817) ; Nemoied, Beitr. Naturq. Bras. iv. p. 786 (1833) ; 

 Gray, List Gralhc Brit. Mus. p. 113 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. 

 p. 589 (1846); Hartl. Lnd. Azara, p. 24 (1847); Burm. Th. 

 Bras. iii. p. 394 (1856) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 282; id. P. Z. S. 

 1860, p. 290 (Babahoyo) ; Burm. Reis. La-Plata St. ii. p. 506 

 (1861: Tucuman); E. C. Taylor, Lbis, 1864, p. 96 (Orinoco); 

 Scl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ralli, p. 66 (1865 : Cayenne ; Demerara) ; 

 Leot. Ois Trinid. p. 486 (1866) ; Scl. S; Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, 

 p. 200 (Nauta) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 145 (Conchitas), 1869, 

 p. 252 (Venezuela) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 313, 458 (1871) ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. iii. p. 70, no. 10530 (1871) ; Scl. Sr Salv. Nomencl. Av. 

 Neotr. p. 142 (1873); Lee, Lbis, 1873, p. 137 (Argentina); Scl. 

 fy Salv. Lhis, 1873, p. 309 (Upper Amazonia) ; Layard, Lbis, 1873, 

 p. 396 (Para); LLudson, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 103 (habits); Taczan. 

 P. Z. S. 1877, p. 329 (Pozo de Lambedero, Peru) ; Bumf. Lbis, 

 1877, p. 196 (Buenos Avres) ; W. A. Forbes, P. Z. S. 1881, 

 p. 642, 647 (anatomy) ; 'id. Ibis, 1881, p. 359 (Pernambuco) ; 

 Wliite, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 627 (Tucuman) ; Berl. Ibis, 1884, p. 440 

 (Angostura) : Taczan. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 331 (1884); Barrows, 

 Auk, i. p. 277 (1884 : Uruguay) ; Salvin, Lbis, 1886, p. 177 (Brit. 

 Guiana) ; Macfarlane, Lbis, 1887, p. 309 (Guavaquil) ; Scl. Sr 

 Hudson. Argent. Orn. ii. p. 163 (1889) ; Graham Kerr, Lbis, 1891, 

 p. 270 (Rio Pilcomayo) ; Aplin, Lbis, 1894, p. 205 (Bio Negro, 

 Uruguay). 



Jacana, Daubent. PL Enl. ix. pi. 322 ; Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. 

 p. 186 (1781). 



Chesnut Jacana, Lath. Gen. Hist. iii. pt. 1, p. 241 (1785). 



Aguapeazo, Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 257 (1802). 



Aguapeazn b'anco de baxo, Azara, t. c. p. 262 (juv.). 



Parra jassan°, Cab. in Schomburqk' 's Reis. Guian. iii. p. 759 (1848). 

 • Parra intermedia, Sclater, P. Z. 8. 1856, p. 252; Gray, Hand-l. B. 

 iii. p. 70, no. 10534(1871). 



