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CHINESE 
JAC. 
DEscRIPTION. 
2 
CHILI 
JAC. 
DescripTion. 
Je ANCLAt N® A. 
Genus LXXIX. JACANA. 
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N° 1. Chinefe Jac. N° 2. Chili Jac. 
Parra chinenfis, Izd. Orn. ii. p. 764. 7- 
Chinefe Jacana, Gen. Syz. v. p. 246. 8.—Id. Sup. p. 256. t. 117. 
Species which feems very little different from the Chine/e one, was 
met with on the ifland of fava*. The utility of the great lenoth 
of toes feemed manifeft, for thefe birds were thereby enabled to walk 
over the leaves of the Great Water Lilly + with wonderful agility, thus 
keeping themfelves at the furface of the water. 
Parra chilenfis, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 765. 11.—Molin. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 239. 
IZE of a Magpie, but ftands higher on its legs: the bill is conic, 
fomewhat bent at the tip, and two inches long: irides yellow : 
on the forehead a bilobated red caruncle; back purt of the head 
fomewhat crefted: the neck, back, and wings, on the fore part are 
violet: neck before, to the middle of the breaft, black: belly white : 
the tail fhort and brown; quills the fame colour: at the bend of the 
wing a yellow ccnical fpine, half an inch in length: legs black; above 
the knees naked, as ufual in the genus: the toes fhorter than in moft 
of the genus. » 
® D’Entrecaffeaux Voy. ii. p. 332: 
+ Nymphea nelumba. 
Inhabits. 
