METOPIDIUS. 683 



Genus Rhynchjea, Cuvier. 

 204. Ehynch^a bengalensis, Linn. 



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



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



Rallus bengkalensis, Linn., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 263, 1766. 



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



Scolopax chinensis, Bodd., Tabl. PI. Eul., p. 53, 1783. 



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



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



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



Rhijnchaiavariegata,Y\(i\\\. et Oud., Gal. Ois., t. ii, p. 1U9, pi. 240, 1825; Schl., Mus. P.-B. 

 Scolopaces, p. 16, 1864. 



RhjjncJicea australis,Gou\A.,Vvc,c.'Loo\. ^oc.,\'?,2,l,^.lbh- Gray, Gen. B., vol. iii, p. 585, 184(3; 

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



Rhynchaa bengalensis, Gyhj, List of Gralke, &c., B. M., p. 108,1844; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. iii, 

 p. 677, 1864; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 408; Gray, Handl. B., ni, p. 336, 1871 ; 

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

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

 Blytb & 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. 



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



a. J Momien, 4th June 1868. 

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



Family— P^i?^/Z>^\ 



Genus Metopidius, Wagler. 

 205. Metopidius indicus, Latham. 



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



P«?Ta «mf/?C(Z, Lath., Ind. Orn., t. ii, p. 765, 1790; Hartl., Contr. Orn., 1849, p. 26; Schl., M. 



P.-B., i?a;^«, p. 67, 1865 ; Pelz., Reis. Nov. Vog., p. 132, 1865; Gray, Handl. B., vol. iii, 



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

 Farm aip-ea, Vahl., Shrift. Naturh. Selsk., Bd. ii, p. 51, 1793. 

 he grand jacana, verd a crUe, 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, Euo. 



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

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

 Parra superciliosa, Horsf., Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. xiii, p. 194, 1821 ; id., Znol. Researches in .lava, 



pi. Ixiv, 1824. 

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

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

 Rydralector 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. 



