72 



Metopidius indicus, Blyth in Jard. Go?itrib. Orn. 1852, p. 5;j, pi. Ixxxix. 

 fig. 4 ; Oaten ed. J£>'ii,f A'est-'i^- Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 356 (1890) ; Sharpe,. 

 Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 72 (1890) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 168 (1899). 



The eggs of the Indian Jacana are of a pointed oval form and 

 excessively glossj-. The ground varies considerably, being cream- 

 er pale stone-colour in some, olive-brown, buft', or reddish buff in 

 others. The surface-markings are very dark brown or more com- 

 monly black, and consist exclusively of intertwined and entangled 

 lines," knotted and twisted in the greatest confusion. The under- 

 lying markings are pale grey or brown, and are seldom conspicuous. 

 Examples measure from 1-3 to 1-55 in length, and from -U.t to I'l 

 in breadth. 



8. Jhansi, India. 



4. Jhansi, July. 



4. Jhausi, July. 



4. Jhansi, July. 



2. Jhansi, July. 

 4. Jhansi, Aug. 



3. Jhansi, Aug. 



4. Jhansi, Aug. 



1. Hoshungabad, 20th Sept. 



3. Hoshungabad, 27th Sept. 



5. Raipur, C. Provs. (F. B. Bleivitt). 



4. Raipur (7-'. B. B.). 

 4. Raipur (F. B. B.). 



4. Raipur {F. B. B.). 



5. Raipur (F. B. B.). 

 4. Raipur (F. B. B.). 



4. Raipur {F. B. B.). 



6. Raipur {F. B. B). 



5. Raipur [F. B. B.). 

 4. Raipin- {F. B. B.). 

 4. Raipur (f. i?. £.). 



3. Pegu, Aug. {E. W. Ontes). 



4. Pegu, 6th Aug. (E. W. O.). 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Cull. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume CoU. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Cull. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Gates Coll. 

 Gates Coll. 



Genus PHYLLOPEZUS, Sharjje. 

 Phyllopezus africanus (Ct)i>.). 



Parra africana, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. lab. 59. fig. 3 (1855-63); 



Gurney, Ibis, 1862, p. 38; 8Ititrpe, ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, 



p. 648 (1875-84). 

 Phyllopezus africanus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. ^J . xxiv. p. 70 (1896) ; id. 



Hand-l. i. p. 168 (1899). 



The eggs of the African Jacana 

 Metopidius indicus, except in size, 

 spectively : 1-28 by -9 ; 1-2 by -88. 



1. South Africa. 

 1. N-Ma\ {T. Agres). 



Equatorial Africa (Emi ^ Pasha). 



do not differ from those of 

 Two examples measure re- 



Sir Andrew Smith [C.J. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 P. L. Sclater, Esq. [P.]. 



