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J A C A N A. 



AFRICAN J. 



Pl. lxxxvii. 



De 



SCRIPTION. 



Place, 



Br. Muf. 



T ENGTH nine inches and a half. Bill dufky, of a pale 

 brownifh horn-colour at the tip : forehead bare : the upper 

 parts of the plumage of a very pale cinnamon-colour: chin and 

 throat white : breaft of a tawny yellow, mottled and barred, on 

 the fides of it and the neck, with black: the under parts from 

 thence like the back, but darker : greater quills black : on the 

 inner part of the bend of the wing a fhort blunt fpur: through 

 the eye, paffing to the hind part of the neck, quite to the back, 

 black : legs greenifh black : toes and claws very long, as in the 

 variable Jacana : hind claw an inch and a half in length. 

 Inhabits Africa. 



CHINESE J. 

 Description. 



Place. 



T- ENGTH twenty-one inches. Bill dufky: crown of the 

 head, forehead, and all beneath, as far as the bread, pale 

 cinereous cream-colour: back part of the head black, of the neck 

 yellow, divided from the white before by a line of black on each 

 fide: the body vinaceous red : wing coverts white : quills black: 

 tail long : legs and toes long, and of a greenifh colour. 



Suppofed to inhabit China : feen by me among fome fine 

 drawings done in that country, and appears a very large fpecies. 



o. Parra chavaria, Lin. Syft. i. p. 260. 5. 



FAITHFUL J. 



Description. OIZE of a dunghill Cock, and flands a foot and a half from the 



ground. The bill is conic, a little bent, and of a dirty white 



colour i the upper mandible as in the Cock : noftrils oblong, per- 



6 vious : 



