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BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Fig. :}7. — To show the facial lappets 



Fiy;. 38. — To illustrate the lonsr toes and liind-cluw. 



87. Jacana spinosa. 

 < 'oMMON Jacana. 



Jacana stpinosa (Linn.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 152, 17oS ("Plahitat in America 

 australi ") ; Brabourne k Chubb, B. S. Anier. i. ]). i-i. no. 427, 1912. 



Parra Jassana (\ib. in Schomb. Keis. Guian. iii. ]). 7'jO. 18-48. 



Parra jacana (Linn. 1766), Brown, Canoe and Camp Life, p. 107, 1876 

 (Kupununi River) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 177 ; Quelch, Timehri (2) 

 ii. p. 363, 1888 (Abary Kiver) ; id. op. cit. (2) v. p. 107, 1891 

 (Georgetown) ; Llovd Price, t. c. p. 67. 



Jacana jacana Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 82, 1896 (Carimang 

 lliver, Quonga) ; Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, jip. 378, 

 384 (Abary lliver), p. 129 (Georgetown), 1910. 



" Spiirwinfi' " (Brou'ii). 



Adult male, l^ack, winas. innermost .secondaries, tail, sides of tlie 



