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Order CHARADRIIFORMES 



Suborder Charadrii 



Superfamily JACANIDES 



Family JACANIDAE 



JACANA SPINOSA VIOLACEA (Cory) 



WEST INDIAN JACANA, GALLITO, GALLITO DE AGTJA, MEDECIN, VANNEAU 

 ARME, CHIRURGIEN, POULE D'EAU DOREE, CHEVALIER MORDORE 

 ARME 



Parra violacea Cory, Bull. Nuttall Omitli. Club, 1881, pp. 130 and 155 

 (Gantier, Haiti). 



Jacana, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 8, 1781, pp. 187-188 (description, hab- 

 its). — Descourtilz, Voy. Nat., vol. 2, 1809, pp. 65-66 (Pont de l'Estere). 



Vanneau Arnie, Descourtilz, Voy. Nat., vol. 2, 1S09, pp. 208-209 (Haiti). 



Jacana armata fusca Brisson, Ornith., vol. 5, 1760, pp. 125-129, pi. 11, fig. 

 1 (" S. Doiningue"). 



Parra gymnostoma, Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, Dec, 1884, pp. 159- 

 160, col. pi. (Le Coup?).— Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, pp. 317, 323 

 (listed). 



Parra jacana, Bitter, Naturh. Beis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, pp. 152, 157 

 (listed).— Hartlaub, Isis, 1847, p. 610 (listed). 



Jacana spinosa, Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1S92, p. 92 (Haiti, Domini- 

 can Bepublic). — Cherrie, Field Col. Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1896, p. 25 (Bio 

 Ozama). 



Jacana spinosa violacea, Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 1917, p. 406 

 (El Batey, specimens; Monte Cristi). — Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, 

 p. 139; Beneath Tropic Seas, 192S, pp. 108, 220 (Etang Saumatre, Etang Mira- 

 goane) .— Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, p. 495 (Etang 

 Miragoane, Fort Liberte). — Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 363 (Haina, Laguna del 

 Salodillo, Etang Miragoane, Gonai'ves). — Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., 

 vol. 68, 1929, p. 312 (Bio Haina, specimens). 



Resident; fairly common at certain points, but apparently local 

 in distribution. 



At the eastern end of Lake Enriquillo Abbott found jacanas fairly 

 common, and collected two adult males on October 2, 1919, while at 

 Laguna Rincon, near Cabral, where the birds were plentiful, he 

 took an adult female on March 15, 1922, and another female in im- 

 mature dress March 17. Cherrie in 1895 found jacanas quite com- 

 mon along the Ozama River near Santo Domingo City, and states 

 that he saw downy young with their parents on April 26. Peters 

 found jacanas in small numbers on a lagoon at El Batey, near the 

 north coast of the Dominican Republic, on April 5, 1916, and col- 

 lected two specimens. He also examined the wing of one killed on 

 the Rio Yaqui del Norte near Monte Cristi. Danforth collected 

 one at the Laguna del Salodillo, near Copey, June 26, 1927, and 

 saw others near Haina. Ciferri secured two on the Rio Haina, 

 August 14, 1929. 



