THE IBIS. 



FOURTH SERIES. 



No. XXII. APRIL 188.2. 



XV. — Ornithological Notes made in the 8traits Settlements and 

 in the Western States of the Malay Peninsula. By Lieut. 

 H. R. Kelham, 74th Highlanders. 



[Continued from p. 18, and concluded,] 



Parra sinensis, Gm. The Pheasant-tailed Jacana.^ 

 Late one evening in the first week in May, while shooting 

 near Saiyong Jheel, on the Perak river^ I was stalking a flock 

 of Teal which had gone down on some swampy ground bor- 

 dering the water, when something white darted past, which, 

 in the dark, I took to be a Goose Teal, so fired, but found 

 that instead of a Teal I had killed a most beautiful specimen 

 of this handsome bird, the only one I came across in the 

 peninsula, though in India I believe it is far from rare. 



It was a male in summer plumage; length 17^ inches, of 

 which the tail of four long tapering black feathers measures 

 5^ ; irides brown ; beak, legs, and toes plumbeous, the toes 

 are very long and slender, and set like the spokes of a wheel, 

 hind claw 1| inch; underparts white, barred irregularly with 

 black : a peculiar golden mane passes along the back of the 

 neck ; the back and scapulars are brown with a bright purple 

 gloss ; wings pure white, excepting the first primary, outer 



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