392 JACANA. 



breast; hind part of the neck yellow buff-colour; between the neck 

 and back gilded brown ; beneath from the breast deep purple ; 

 back and scapulars reddish brown; wing coverts white, quills brown, 

 the secondaries edged with white; the ends of some of the primaries 

 grow very narrow towards the tips ; and finish almost in a point ; at 

 the bend of the wing a short, sharp, horn-coloured spur ; four of the 

 middle tail feathers greatly elongated, and shaped as in the Gold 

 Pheasant, the longest ending in a point, the shorter less pointed, and 

 marked near the tip with an oval spot of white ; legs green, toes and 

 claws very long, as usual in this Genus. 



Inhabits India, where it is called Vuppi-pi. — From the drawings 

 of Lady Impey : is also called Sohna. In other drawings called by 

 the Mussulmans, Surdul, and Sookdel. 



It is found in marshy places near Calcutta, in the rainy season, 

 in flocks, and makes the nest of the leaves of Paddy in the Water. 

 The Mussulmans eat it. 



One of these in the collection of drawings of Gen. Hardwicke, 

 and said to be a female, weighed three ounces and thirteen drachms; 

 it is smaller, and without the elongated tail feathers ; crown of the 

 head rufous; sides of the head, and all beneath, from the chin, white; 

 from the nostrils a narrow dusky streak, continuing under the eye, 

 and on the sides of the neck to the back, which is pale cinereous 

 brown, with large waves of buff; wing coverts very pale ash, with 

 dusky, lunular, narrow waves; outside of the wing white ; tail pale 

 ash-colour; in shape rounded, without the four elongated feathers; 

 but the wings have similar appendages at the end of the quills, 

 though very short ; and the spur at the bend of the wing very small; 

 legs pale. — Inhabits India; found at Cawnpore, by name of Peewa. 



B. — This differs in being black on the nape; behind the neck 

 pale rufous; neck red brown; the whole head besides, and the neck 

 to the breast white, from this the rest of the under parts are black; 



