358 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



primary, which in E. recurvirostris is brown with the basal half of the inner 

 web white, but in E. magnirostris all white with merely a brown band on 

 the outer web. It is an Australian species, and has been met with in the 

 Andaman Islands. 



The Great Stone-Plover is found in most of the larger rivers of Burmah, 

 and I found it tolerably abundant in the old watercourses near the canal 

 as well as at the mouth of the Sittang river. 



It occurs all over India as far as the Indus river and in Ceylon. It is 

 probably abundant in the Indo-Burniese countries, but does not appear to 

 extend to China or Cochin China. 



This fine Plover is usually found in pairs or small flocks on sand- banks 

 and stretches of shingle and also, less frequently, in dried-up nullahs and 

 swamps. It has a soft whistling note. I found the eggs near Kyeikpadein 

 in May, two in number, laid on the bare ground in a dry nullah ; they 

 were pale stone-colour blotched with blackish. 



Family PARRID^E. 

 Genus METOPIDIUS, Wagl 



708. METOPIDIUS INDICUS. 



THE BRONZE-WINGED JACANA. 



Parra indica, Lath. 2nd. Orn. ii. p. 765 ; Sahad. Ucc. Born. p. 343 ; Gates, S. F. 

 v. p. 165 -, Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 464; Hume, 8. F. viii. p. 113; Bingham, 

 8. F. ix. p. 197 j Gates, S. F. x. p. 241. Metopidius indicus, Jerd. B. 2nd. ii. 

 p. 708 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 591 ; id. S. F. iii. p. 183 j Bl. B. Burm. p. 157 j 

 Butler, 8. F. iv. p. 19 ; Armstrong, 8. F. iv. p. 348 : Anders. Yunnan Exped. 

 p! 683. 



Description. Male and female. Chin and centre of the throat whity 

 brown ; a broad white supercilium reaching to the nape ; with this excep- 

 tion the whole head, neck all round, upper back and the whole lower 

 plumage are black glossed with green and the upper back with purple; lower 

 back, scapulars, tertiaries and wing-coverts glossy bronze; rump, upper 

 tail coverts, flanks, tail and under tail-coverts rich maroon; region of the 

 vent and the thigh-coverts maroon-brown streaked with white; primaries 

 and secondaries black, the earlier secondaries narrowly edged with white 

 near their tips, the later ones chiefly bronze on the outer webs. 



The young bird has the forehead, crown and nape chestnut ; hind neck 

 and upper back purple; back, scapulars, tertiaries and wing-coverts glossy 



