62 ELEMENTS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
altogether of ten species, whereof five are Ethiopian and two 
Oriental, while one is found in Australia. 
We have now briefly surveyed a great number of Wading Birds, 
beginning with the Rails and Coots. Their long toes we saw 
to ‘be noteworthy, but there is yet another group of very simi- 
larly formed Water Birds which have their toes still more elon- 
gated to facilitate their walking over the large floating leaves of 
Fig. 64. 






The Brazilian Jacana (Parra jacana). 
some aquatic plants: of the warmer regions. These birds are 
known as “ Jacanas,” and the species Parra jacana may be taken 
as an example of ten or a dozen others, some of which are 
inhabitants of the Old World, while others are American. 
One form, which is the largest, has a long tail and is classed in 
a separate genus as the Pheasant-tailed Jacana (Hydrophasianus 
