PARR A SUPERCILIOSA. 



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Ord. V'".^ Les Echassieus, Cuvier. 5"".° Famille, Les Macrodactyles, 



Ord. XIII"^ Grallatores, Temminck. 



Ord. IV. GralluE, Linn. Syst. 



Ord. VI. Grallatores, Illiger. Fam. 33, Macrodactyli. 



PARR A, Linn. Lath, lllig. Temm. Skjc. 



Char. gen. — Rostrum mediocre, crassiusculum, rectum, compressum, aequale, 

 apice conico-acuminatum, acutum, maxilla utrinque sulco lato antrorsum 

 evanescente, basi subcerigera, ceromate basi supra et lateribus in paleam carun- 

 culaceam plerumque exeunte, dertro altiore, in apicem convexo-deflexo, man- 

 dibulae gonyde adscendente. Nares in sulco maxiUee sitte, ceromate tectse, 

 pone medium pertusee apertura eUiptica longitudinali pervia. Alee calcaratee : 

 remige prima, secunda et tertia vix breviore. Cauda brevissima aut mediocris. 

 Pedes graUarii, elongati, congrvii, tetradactyli, fissi. Digiti elongati, graciles, 

 cum unguibus tarsum eequantes, hallux digito medio dimidio brevior, at cum 

 ungue iUum fere a^quans, incumbens. Ungues elongati, tenues, recti, acumi- 

 nati, compressi, subtus canaliculati ; posticus reliquis duplo longior, subre- 

 curvus. Tarsus digitum medium £equans. Acropodia scutulata. 



PaiTa atro-viridis nitens, lineis superciliaribus albis, dorso alisque viridi-olivaceo 

 nitentibus, remigibus nigris, uropygio caudaque castaneo-rufis nitore violaceo. 



Pichisan, of the Javanese. 



Parsa superciliosa, Horsf. Syst. Arrangement of Birds from Java, Linn. Trans. 



Vol. XIIL p. 194. 

 Indian Jacana, Lath. Gen. Hist, of Birds, Second Edition, Vol. IX. p. 394. Var. A. 



The Parra superciliosa is found both on the continent of Asia, and in the islands 

 of the Indian- Archipelago. Dr. Latham enumerates several varieties of the Indian 

 Jacana. The description of one of these, from a Javanese specimen, agrees with 

 our bird. In Dr. Hamilton's drawings of Indian Birds, preserved in the Museum 

 at the India House, it has the name of Parra superciliosa, and is indicated 



