338 PABRID^ ACTOPHILUS 



713. Actophilus africanus. African Jacana. 



Parra africana, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i, p. 709 (1788) ; Swains. Zool. 

 Illustr., 2nd ser., pi. 6 (1829) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 249, 1862, p. 38 

 [Natal] ; Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 334 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 335 (1867) ; 

 Gurney, in Andersson's B. Damaral. p. 328 (1872) ; Shelley, Ibis, 

 1875, p. 86 ; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 639 ; Holub fr Pelzeln, Orn. 

 Siid-Afr. p. 296 (1882); Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 367 [Koomoorooi 



FIG. 108. Left foot of Actophilus africanus. x . 



Pan] ; Sharpe, ed. Layard s B. S. Afr. p. 648 (1884); W. Ayres, 

 Ibis, 1887, p. 62 ; Bryden, Gun and Camera, p. 350 (1893) ; Fleck, 

 Journ. Ornith. 1894, p. 384; Kendall, Ibis, 1896, p. 176; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1897, p. 516 [Zululand] . 



Phyllopezus africanus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. 76 (1896) ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. i, p. 187 (1896) ; W. L. Sclater, Ibis, 1899, p. 114 [Inham- 

 bane] ; Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 183 (1899) ; Alexander, Ibis, 

 1900, p. 451 ; Oates, Cat. B. Eggs, ii, pp. 72, 360 (1902). 



Actophilus africanus, Reichenoiv, Vog. Afr. i, p. 267 (1900). 



Description. Adult Male. Forehead and crown of the head 

 naked ; a short but distinct white eyebrow from the base of the beak 

 to above the eye, below which is a band of shiny black, commencing 



