386 JACANA. 



backwards, and divided behind ; crown dark brown, spotted with 

 darker brown ; hind part of the neck the same, but very deep ; above 

 the eyes a line of white, passing- down on each side; and close to this 

 a black one, continuing through the eye, and joining with the black 

 at the back of the neck ; sides of the head and the neck rufous 

 white; chin, breast, and belly, pure white; on the fore part of the 

 wing a yellow spur; scapulars pale brown; lesser wing coverts 

 purplish chestnut ; the middle brown, the greater black ; four of 

 the quills next the body brown ; the others green, margined with 

 black at the ends, the outmost wholly so on the outer web ; legs 

 bluish ash. It varies much ; in some the white streak over the eye 

 passes behind a very little way, and tends towards the nape; in some 

 also the black streak begins at the base of the bill, in others only at 

 the eye, or a streak of white over the eye, not accompanied by a 

 black one ; the hind part of the neck varies from dusky, to quite 

 black, in different specimens ; some have only the rudiment of a 

 spur, and the red caruncle at the forehead smaller, and lying back 

 on the forehead ; probably these differences constitute the marks of 

 sex or age. — Inhabits Brazil ; also plentiful about Carthagena, in 

 South America, thought to be a young bird of the first described. 



3— BLACK JACANA. 



Parra nigra, Ind. Orn. ii. 762. Gm. Lin. i. 708. 



Jacana armata nigra, Bris. v. 124. Id. 8vo. ii. 243. 



Gallinula tertia Marcgr. Rail, 115. Will. 237. 



Le Chirurgien noir, Buf. viii. 189. 



The 3d Brasilian Water Hen of Marcgrave, Will. Engl. 318. 



Black Jacana, Gen. Syn. v. 242. 



SIZE of the last. Bill saffron-colour; membrane on the forehead 

 rufous; head, neck, and upper parts black; breast, and beneath 

 brown ; quills green, tipped with brown ; tail black ; on the fore 

 part of the wing a yellow spur; legs ash-colour. — Inhabits Brazil. 



