METOPIDIUS. 683 



Genus Ehynch^a, Cuvier. 

 204. Ehtnch^a bengalensis, Linn. 



The Bengal Water Rail, Albin, Birds, t. iii, p. 85, pi. xc, 1736. 



Le chevalier de Bengale, Briss. Orn., t. v, p. 209, 1760. 



Mallus benghalensis, Linn., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 263, 1766. 



Beccassine de la Chine, Buff., PI. Enl., 881. 



Scolopax cJiinensis, Bodd., Tabl. PI. Enl., p. 53, 1783. 



Scolopax sinensis, Lath.., Ind. Orn., vol. ii, p. 717, 1790. 



Scolopax capensis, Eaffl., Tr. Linn. Soc, vol. xiii, p. 327, 1821. 



Rhynchcea orientalis, Horsf., t. c, p. 193, 1821. 



BJiynclima vafiegata,'N\(i\^. et Oud., Gal. Ois., t. ii, p. 109, pi. 240, 1825; Schl., Mus, P.-B, 

 Scolopaces, p. 16, 1864. 



Rkpiclma australis, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1837, p. 155 ; Gray, Gen. B., vol. iii, p. 585, 1846 ; 

 Gould, B. Austr., vi, pi. xli, 1848 ; id., Handl. B. Austr., vol. ii, p. 274, 1865. 



R]iyncTi(2a bengalensis, Gray, List of Grallm, &c., B. M., p. 108, 1844; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. iii, 

 p. 677, 1864; Swinlioe, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 408; Gray, Handl. B., iii, p. 336, 1871 ; 

 Hume, Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 235; Adam., t. c., p. 396; Ball, Stray Feathers, 1874, 

 p. 431; Salvad., Ucc Born., p. 336, 1874; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 586, 1873; 

 Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, extra No., p. 157, 1875; Butler, Stray 

 Feathers, 1876, p. 15; Fairbank, t. c., p. 263; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1877, p. 146; W. Ramsay, 

 t. c, p. 469 ; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1877, p. 46 ; Butler, t. c, p. 223. 



Rhynclima chinensis, Gray, Gen. B., vol. iii, p. 585, 1846. 



a. t Momien, 4th June 1868. 

 This is the only specimen of this species observed by me. 



¥a:mi\y—PARRIDA!:. 



Genus Metopidius, Wagler. 

 205. Metopidius indicus, Latham. 



Indian jacana, Lath., Syn. Suppl., p. 257, 1787. 



Pfl^rm m^^m. Lath., Ind. Orn., t. ii, p. 765, 1790; Hartl., Contr. Orn., 1849, p. 26; Schl., M. 



V.-^.,RaUi,^. 67, 1865; Pelz., Beis. Nov. Vog., p. 132, 1865; Gray, Handl. B., vol. iii, 



p. 70, 1871 ; Salvad., Ucc. Born., p. 343, 1874. 

 Parra cuprea, Vahl., Shrift. Naturh. Selsk., Bd. ii, p. 51, 1793. 

 Le grand jacana, verd a crete, Temm., Syst. Cat. Cab. d'Orn., p. 265, 1807. 

 Parra cristata, Vieill., N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xvi, p. 450 (1817, ex Temm.) ; Bonn, et Vieill., Enc. 



Meth., t. iii, p. 1056, 1823. 

 Parra aenea, Cuv., Regno, An., t. i, p. 498, 1817. 

 Parra su^Jerciliosa, Horsf., Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. xiii, p. 194, 1821 ; id., Zool. Besearches in Java, 



pi. Ixiv, 1824. 

 Parra melanocMoris, Vieill. et Oud., Gal. Ois., 1st ed., ii, pi. 264, 1820-26. 

 Metopidius aeneus, Wagl., Isis, 1832, p. 279. 

 Hydralector cristatus, Wagl., t. c, p. 280. 



Parra arata, Tickell, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. ii, p. 582, 1833. 

 Parra melanoviridis , Vieill., Gall. Ois,, 2nd ed., ii, p. 164, 1834. 



