COMMON JACANA. 
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which grow in those situations with the greatest 
facility. They are noisy and quarrelsome birds. 
A. Rostro bast carunculato. 
A. With the beak carunculated at its base. 
COMMON JACANA. 
(Parra Jacana.) 
Pa. castaneo-purpurea, pallio riifo, remigibus primoribus viridi- 
bus, caruncula aurantid. 
Chesnut-purple Jacaua, with the pallium red, the primary quills 
green, the caruncle gold colour. 
Parra Jacana. Linn. Syst.Nat. 1. 259. Gmel. Syst.Nat. 1. 707. 
Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 762. 
Jacana armata fusca. Briss. Orn. 5= l2o.pl. II. y. 1. 
Gallinula Brasiliensis quarta Marcgravii. Raii, Av. p. 1 15. 
Le Jacana. Buf. Ois. 8. \Q5.pl. 16. Buff. PI. Enl. 322. 
Spur-winged Water Hen. Edvo. Birds, ph 357. 
Chesnut Jacana. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 241. 
Young. — Parra variabilis. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1 . 260. Gmel. Syst. 
Nat. 1. 708. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 763. 
Jacana armata varia. Briss. Orn. 5. 129. 
Le Jacana varie. Buff. Ois. 8. 192. 
Le Jacana du Brasil, Biff. PI. Enl. 846. 
Spur-winged Water Hen, Edw. Birds, pi. 48. 
Variable Jacana. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 244. 
Length nearly ten inches : beak upwards of an 
inch long, and orange-coloured : the head, throat, 
neck, breast, and the rest of the under parts are 
black : the back, wing-coverts, and scapulars bright 
