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wing-coverts bordered with buff or whitish; forehead, supra-auricular 

 stripe, lores, and lower parts white, 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 PARRJE. 

 Family PARRIDJE. 



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 1 . No frontal shield nor lappet; primaries attenuated at their tips; center tail- 

 not elongated _ _ Hydralector (p. 150) 



a 8 . With a leaf-like frontal lappet; primaries not produced; center tail-feathers 

 feathers greatly elongated 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 SCOPOLI, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 2, 92. 



Hydrophasis chirurgus SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 69; Hand- 

 List (1899), 1, 168; GATES, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 71; MCGREGOR 

 and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 30. 



Calayan (McGregor)-, Luzon (McGregor); Mindanao (M earns)-, Mindoro 

 (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester). Indian Peninsula, Indo-Chinese contries to 

 Malay Peninsula and greater Sunda Islands. 



Adult in 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 



