PAR It A SUPERCILIOSA. 
Ord. Vr Les Echassiers, Cuvier. Famille, Les Macrodactyles. 
Oed. XIII™ Grallatores, Temminck. 
Ord. IV. Grall^, Linn, Syst. 
Ord. VI. Grallatores, Illiger. Fam..33, Macrodactyli. 
PARRA, Linn. Lath. IUig. Temm. Sp. 
Char. gen. — Rostrum mediocre, crassiusculum, rectum, compressum, aequale, 
apice conico-acuminatum, acutura, maxilla utrinque sulco lato antrorsum 
evanescente, basi subcerigera, ceromate basi supra et lateribus in paleam carun- 
culaceam plerumque exeunte, dertro altiore, in apicem convexo-deflexo, man- 
dibulae gonyde adscendente. Nares in sulco maxillae sitae, ceromate tectae, 
pone medium pertusse apertura elliptica longitudinali pervia. AI& calcaratae : 
remige prima, secunda et tertia vix breviore. Cauda brevissima aut mediocris. 
Pedes grallarii, elongati, congrui, tetradactyli, fissi. Digiti elongati, graciles, 
cum unguibus tarsum aequantes, hallux digito medio dimidio brevior, at cum 
ungue ilium fere aequans, incumbens. Ungues elongati, tenues, recti, acumi- 
nata compressi, subtus canaliculati ; posticus reliquis duplo longior, subre- 
curvus. Tarsus digitum medium aequans. Acropodia scutulata. 
Parra atro-viridis nitens, lineis superciliaribus albis, dorso alisque viridi-obvaceo 
nitentibus, remigibus nigris, uropygio caudaque castaneo-rufis nitore violaceo. 
Pichisan, of the Javanese. 
Parsa superciliosa, Horsf Syst Arrangement of Birds from Java y Linn. Trans. 
Vol. XIIL p- 194. 
Indian Jacana, Lath. Gen. Hist, of Birds, Second Edition, Vol. IX. p. 394. Var. A. 
THE Parra superciliosa is found both on the continent of Asia, and in the islands 
of the Indian Archipelago. Dr. Latham enumerates several varieties of the Indian 
Jacana. The description of one of these, from a Javanese specimen, agrees with 
our bird. In Dr. Hamilton's drawings of Indian Birds, preserved in the Museum 
at the India House, it has the name of Parra superciliosa, and is indicated 
