368 FOREIGN BIRDS* 



There, with loud and soft note, too, the Rt^ by-crow n'd- 



Wren ; 

 And the Caroline warbled most sweet in the glen. 

 The Woodpeckers came, in their brightness array'd, 

 Still "tapping," still scooping till holes they had made. 

 For the poultry fit guardian and governing king, 

 There the Faithful Jacana (^^) with spines on his 



wing. 



wedged; feet gressorial ; distinguislied also from all other birds 

 by having the two middle tail feathers quite naktd of their 

 vaues, for about an inch, at a small distance from the extremity. 

 The BrasiliensiSf or Brazilian -Motmot, is brit;ht green 

 above, below a more obtuse shade of the fame colour; length 

 seven inches; bill conic, serrate; toes three before, one behind. 

 Found in South America ; feeds on insects ; shy, solitary, and 

 almost incapable of flight. This bird is called by Edwards 

 the Brazilian Saw-billed Roller, by 1VIarcgrave,Guira-^ 



GUAINUMBI. 



(38) Order, Grall^, {Linn.) Jacana, the Chilese, the 

 Chesnut, the Faithful. 



The genus Parra, (Linn.) or Jacana, comprehends more 

 than ten species, natives of the warmer parts of Asia, Africa, 

 and America; they have a tapering, somewhat obtuse bill; 

 nostrils oval, in the middle of the bill ; front covered with 

 lobate caruncles ; wings spinous. The following are some of the 

 most interesting examples : 



The ChileTisis, or Chilese-Jacana, has the bill two inches 

 long ; neck, back, and forepart of the wings violet ; throat and 

 breast black ; wings and hhort tail brown ; spurs on the wings 

 yellowish, conic, bony, half an inch long, with which it de- 

 fends itself; size of a Jay > noisy ; feeds on worms, &c.; builds 

 in the grass; eggs four, tawny, speckled with black. 



The Jacana, or Chesnut-Jacana, has the body chesnut- 



