ORDER GRALLiE. 397 



Chinese Jacana. Parra Chinensis. Encyc. Mat. 

 Orn. pi. 61. f. 1. VieUl. Gal. %Q5, 



Brown ; head, throat, front of neck, and wing- 

 coverts, white ; hind-neck, furnished with silken 

 plumes of a golden-yellow ; a small stem appended 

 to the end of some of the wing-quills ; four of the 

 tail-quills black, and longer than the body. 



The Luzonian Parra, Lath. Parra Luzonien- 

 sisy Chirurgien de iMgon of Sonnerat, is only the 

 young. Beside some differences of colour, it has not 

 got the long tail. 



To these may be added, 



Parra Africana, Var. Licht. Humb. Cat. Parra 

 Mutica n. ? 



Wings, armless ; forehead not carunculated ; head, 

 greenish-black, with a black vertical line nearly to the 

 back ; bill, black tipt ; hind claw, two inches long. 

 Length, ten and a-half inches. Africa. 



There are also some in the East, which have a 

 crest, and no spur to the wings. 



P. Gallinacea. Tern. 464. 



Head, neck, breast, and belly, deep-green; mantle, 

 cupreous ; rump, and tail, reddish-purple. 



The Kamichi, or Screamers. (Palamedea, L.) 



Resemble the Jacanas in many respects, but are 

 much larger. They resemble them in the two strong 



