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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
primary, which in E. recurvirostris is brown with the basal half of the inner 
web white, but in E. magnirostris all white with merely a brown band on 
the outer web. It is an Australian species, and has been met with in the 
Andaman Islands. 
The Great Stone-Plover is found in most of the larger rivers of Burmah, 
and I found it tolerably abundant in the old watercourses near the canal 
as well as at the mouth of the Sittang river. 
It occurs all over India as far as the Indus river and in Ceylon. It is 
probably abundant in the Indo-Burmese countries, but does not appear to 
extend to China or Cochin China. 
This fine Plover is usually found in pairs or small flocks on sand- banks 
and stretches of shingle and also, less frequently, in dried-up nullahs and 
swamps. It has a soft whistling note. I found the eggs near Kyeikpadein 
in May, two in number, laid on the bare ground in a dry nullah ; they 
were pale stone-colour blotched with blackish. 
Family PARRIDiE. 
Genus METOPIDIUS, Wagl. 
708. METOPIDIUS INDICUS. 
THE BRONZE-WINGED JACANA. 
Parra indica, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 765 ; Salvacl Ucc. Born. p. 343 ; Oates, S. F. 
V. p. 165 j Hume Sf Dav. S. F, vi. p. 464; Hume, 8. F. viii. p. 113; Bingham, 
8. F. ix. p. 197 ; Oates, 8. F. x. p. 241. Metopidius indicus, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 
p. 708 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 591 ; id. 8. F. iii. p. 183 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 157 ; 
Butler, 8. F. iv. p. 19 ; Armstrong, 8. F. iv. p. 348 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped. 
p. 683. 
Description.— Male and female. Chin and centre of the throat whity 
brown; a broad white supercilium reaching to the nape; with this excep- 
tion the whole head, neck all round, upper back and the whole lower 
plumage are black glossed with green and the upper back with purple; lower 
back, scapulars, tertiaries and wing-coverts glossy bronze; rump, upper 
taih coverts, flanks, tail and under tail-coverts rich maroon; region of the 
vent and the thigh-coverts maroon-brown streaked with white ; primaries 
and secondaries black, the earlier secondaries narrowly edged with white 
near their tips, the later ones chiefly bronze on the outer webs. 
The young bird has the forehead, crown and nape chestnut ; hind neck 
and upper back purple ; back, scapulars, tertiaries and wing-coverts glossy 
