396 AVES. 
P. znea,(1) with a black body reflecting blue and violet tints; 
mantle bronze-green; rump and tail blood-red; anterior quills 
of the wing green; a white streak behind the eye. Its spurs are 
blunt and small. 
Others have been discovered in the East, in which this membrane 
is deficient, and which are otherwise remarkable for some singular 
differences in the proportions of their quills. 
P. chinensis; Jacana @ longue queue; Encycl. Method., Orn. 
pl. 61, f. 1; Vieill. Gal. 265. (The Long-tailed Jacana.) Brown; 
head, throat, front of the neck and coverts of the wings white; 
back of the neck furnished with silky feathers of a golden yel- 
low; asmall pediculated appendage to the end of some of the 
wing-quills; four quills of the tail black, and longer than the 
body. The Chirurgien de Lucon of Sonnerat, (P. luzoniensis, ) is 
the young of the same: independently of some difference in the 
colours, it has not yet acquired its long tail. 
The East produces others which are tufted, and in which the spur 
on the wing is deficient, P. gallinacea, Tem. 464. 
PALAMEDEA, Lin. 
The Kamichi resemble the Jacanas, but on a very large scale, in 
the two strong spurs of each of their wings, in their long toes and 
strong nails, that of the thumb in particular, which is long and 
straight as in the Larks; but their beak, whose aperture is small, is 
but slightly compressed, and is not inflated; the upper mandible, 
also, is somewhat arcuated. Their legs are reticulated. The species 
known, 
P. cornuta, L., Enl. 451; Vieill. Gal. 261; Anhima in Brazil; 
Camouche at Cayenne, &c. is larger than the Goose, blackish, 
with a red spot on the shoulder, and a singular appendage on 
top of the head, consisting of a long, slender, mobile and horny 
stem. There are no membranes between the toes. This bird is 
found in the inundated places of South America, and has a very 
loud cry. It is a strict monogamist. It has been said that it 
hunts reptiles, but though its stomach is but slightly musealiins 
it rarely feeds on any thing but aquatic plants and seeds.(2) 
A distinct genus has been made of another, 
Cuauna, Illig.(3) 
Parra chavaria, L.; Chaia of Paraguay, Azzar.; Col. 2195 
(1) Vieillot has changed this specific name into melanchloris, Gal. 264. It is 
also the P. superciliosa, Horsf. Jav. 
(2) Bajon., Mem. sur Cayenne, II, 284. 
(3) Vieillot has changed this name into Or1srorornts. 
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