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wing-coverts bordered with buff or whitish; forehead, supra-auricular 
stripe, lores, and lower parts willte, the chest and sides of breast some- 
times suffused with dull brownish; ear-coverts dusky. 
“Downy young.—Above bright tawny, the rump with three parallel 
stripes of black, inclosing two of paler fulvous than the ground-color ; 
a triangular patch of brown on crown, bounded irregularly with blackish ; 
a black line over ears; throat and rest of head pale tawny; rest of lower 
parts white, becoming grayish posteriorly. 
“Length, 178 to 203; wing, 102 to 113; culmen, 20 to 23; tarsus, 19 
to 20; middle toe, 16 to 19.” (Ridgway.) 
Suborder PARRA. 
Family PARRIDZ. 
In general aspect and habits like the rails but distinguishable at once 
by the enormously lengthened toes and claws; claw of hind toe exceeding 
the very long toe. 
Genera. 
a‘. No frontal shield nor lappet; primaries attenuated at their tips; center tail- 
mot felonpated 0. chisticu.- avd. latte ccicens ee eee Hydralector (p. 150) 
a®, With a leaf-like frontal lappet; primaries not produced; center tail-feathers 
feathers: greatly, elongated a. o0. oo fen.c-nt cc csmec es ee Hydrophasianus (p. 151) 
Genus HYDROPHASIANUS Wagler, 1832. 
End of first primary produced as a filamentous appendage about 
30 mm. in length; second and third also produced but the slender tip 
often broken; tip of fourth primary less slender; a sharp horny spur at 
bend of wing. 
126. HYDROPHASIANUS CHIRURGUS (Scopoli). 
PHEASANT-TAILED JACANA. 
Tringa chirurgus Scorout, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 2, 92. 
Hydrophasis chirurgus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 69; Hand- 
List (1899), 1, 168; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 71; McGrecor 
and WoRcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 30. 
Calayan (McGregor); Luzon (McGregor); Mindanao (Mearns); Mindoro 
(Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester). Indian Peninsula, Indo-Chinese contries to 
Malay Peninsula and greater Sunda Islands. 
Adult im breeding plumage.—Sexes similar; head, chin, and throat 
white; occiput and a line on each side of neck black, behind this a large 
saddle of golden yellow; mantle and scapulars dark brown glossed with 
violet; back, rump, and tail black; lower parts, except chin and throat, 
dead black; first primary black, the other primaries mostly white, but 
with some black at their tips; remainder of wing white; axillars and 
wing-lining white. Iris brown, bill blue, paler at tip; legs blue; nails 
