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AFllICAN JACANA. 
(Parra Africana.) 
Pa. cinnamonea, collo suhtiis albo, pectore Jlavescente Jiigro vario, 
vitta per oculos collo postice remigibusque nigris. 
Cinnamon Jacana with the neck beneath white, the breast yel- 
lowish varied with black, a stripe through the eyes, the neck 
behind and the quills black, 
Parra Africana. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 709. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 
764. 
African Jacana. Lath. Gen. St/n. 5. 246. pi. 87. 
The disproportionate length of the toes of this 
species gives it a very remarkable appearance, by no 
means elegant : it is figured by Latham, and de- 
scribed by him in the following words : '* Length 
nine inches and a half : beak dusky, of a pale brownish 
horn-colour at the tip : forehead bare : the upper 
parts of the plumage of a very pale cinnamon-colour : 
chin and throat white : breast of a tawny-yellow, 
mottled and barred on the sides of it and the neck 
with black : the 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, passing to the hind part of the neck, 
quite to the back, black : legs greenish-black : toes 
and claws very long; hind claw an inch and a half 
in length. Inhabits Africa." 
