394 JACANA. 



chin and throat white; breast tawny yellow, mottled, and barred on 

 the sides of it and the neck with black ; under parts, from thence, 

 like the back, but darker; greater quills black ; on the inner part 

 of the bend of the wing a short, blunt spur; through the eye, to 

 the hind part of the neck, quite to the back, black ; legs greenish 

 black ; toes and claws very long, as in others of the Genus. 



Inhabits Africa ; Mr. Bruce found it in Abyssinia, where it is 

 called Meylie. Mr. Salt brought into England five specimens, four 

 of them were shot in a small fresh water lake belonging to Signor 

 Montero, at Mozambique ; and the other at Chelicut, in Abyssinia. 



A. — Length thirteen inches, from tip of the bill to end of the 

 tail. Bill dusky, pale at the end ; forehead bare some way ; crown 

 of the head black, passing down the back of the neck to the back ; 

 back and wings cinnamon-colour ; lesser quills the same, but darker; 

 great quills black ; from the nostrils, through the eye, pale rufous 

 brown ; the rest of the neck in general, and all beneath white, a 

 little tinged on the sides with pale rufous ; tail dusky ; thighs rufous 

 white ; legs black. 



Inhabits Senegal ; differs but little from the one before described, 

 and is probably the other sex. — In the collection of Mr. Brogden. 



11.— INDIAN JACANA. 



Parra Indica, Ltd. Orn. ii. 765. 



Parra superciliosa, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 194 ? 



Indian Jacana, Gen. Syn. Sup. 257. 



SIZE of the Common Water Hen. The bill yellow, base of the 

 upper mandible dusky blue; near the gape a red spot; head, neck, 

 and under parts, deep bluish black ; back and wings dirty cinereous 

 brown ; quills darker, inclining to violet ; over the eye a broad white 



