368 FOREIGN BIRDS, 



There, with loud and soft note, too, the Ruby-crown'd- 



Wren ; 

 And the Caroline warbled most sweet in the glen. 

 The Woodpeckers came, in their brightness array'd, 

 Still " tapping," still scooping till holes they had made. 

 For the poultry fit guardian and governing king, 

 There the Faithful Jacana ( 38 ) with spines on his 



wing. 



wedged; feet gressorial ; distinguished also from all other birds 

 by having the two middle tail feathers quite naked of their 

 vanes, for about an inch, at a small distance from the extremity. 

 The Brasilicnsis, or Brazilian -Motmot, is bright green 

 above, below a more obtuse shade of the same colour; length 

 seven inches; bill conic, serrate ; toes three before, one behind. 

 Found in South America ; feeds on insects ; shy, solitary, and 

 almost incapable of flight. This bird is called by Edwards 

 the Brazilian Saw-billed Roller, by Marcgrave,Guira- 



GTJAINUMBI. 



( 38 ) Order, Grall^e, (Linn.) Jacana, the Chilese, the 

 Chesnut, the Faithful. 



The genus Parra, (Linn.) or Jacana, comprehends more 

 than ten species, natives of the warmer parts of Asia, Africa, 

 and America; they have a tapering, somewhat obtuse bill; 

 nostrils oval, in the middle of the bill ; front covered with 

 lobate caruncles ; wings spinous. The following are some of the 

 most interesting examples : 



The Chilensis, or Chilese-Jacana, has the bill two inches 

 long ; neck, back, and forepart of the wings violet ; throat and 

 breast black ; wings and short tail brown ; spurs on the wings 

 yellowish, conic, bony, half au inch long, with which it de- 

 fends itself; size of a Jay j noisy ; feeds on worms, &c; builds 

 in the grass; eggs four, tawny, speckled with black. 



The Jacana, or Chesnut-Jacana, has the body chesnut- 



