Order CHABADRIIFORMES 
No. 211. 
Family JACANIDM 
IREDIPARRA GALLINACEA NOV^-HOLLANDIiE. 
EASTEKN COMB-CRESTED JACANA. 
Hydraleotoe NOViE-HOLLANDi^ Salvadori, Ornith. Papua, e Moll., Vol. III., p. 309, 
1882 ; New South Wales, 
Parra galUnacea (not Temminck) Ramsay, Ibis 1865, p. 305 ; id., ib. 1867, p. 417, pi. viii., 
fig. 3 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 199, 1878 ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. 
(Lond.) 1877, p. 344 ; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 21, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Cat., no. 12, p. 327, 1889 ; Cox and Hamilton, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. II., 
Vol. IV., p. 421, 1889 (Mudgee) ; Lumholtz, Among Cannibals, p. 22, 1889. 
Hydralector novce-hollandicB Salvadori, Ornith. Papua, e Moll,, Vol. III., p. 309, 1882. 
Hydralector gallinaceus (pars) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 79, 1896 ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 80, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 773, 
1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 80, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 29, 
1908 ; Ingram, Ibis 1908, p. 463. 
Irediparra galUnacea novm-JiollandicB Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 224, 1912 ; id.. 
List Birds Austr,, p. 73, 1913, 
Distribution. New South Wales (as far South as Mudgee) ; Queensland (as far North as 
Cooktown). 
Adult male. Hinder-crown, hind-neck and mantle black hke the lower-back and rump, 
the feathers tinged with metaUic-purple ; back, scapulars, and wings light bronze- 
brown ; lesser upper wing-coverts round the bend of the wing, bastard-wing, 
primary-coverts and quills deep black with a metallic-purple tinge ; tail white 
at the extreme base, the remainder bronze-black ; a short narrow line of black on 
the lores, a white spot in front of the eye ; sides of face, ear-coverts, sides of neck 
and fore-neck golden-buff ; chin and entire throat white ; the feathers of the 
breast deep black with white bases ; sides of body, axiUaries, and under wing- 
coverts uniform black ; abdomen, thighs, under tail-coverts, and sides of rump 
buffy-white ; bill — distal half black, extreme tip brown, basal half and frontal 
plate pale red ; iris pale yellow, eyelids blue ; feet and legs olive-brown. (Olive 
gives the coloration of the feet of a female killed at Cooktown as “ slate colour.”) 
Total length 205 mm. ; culmen and comb 37, wing 122, tail 35, tarsus 56. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male but larger. Total length 225 mm. ; culmen and 
comb 44, wing 142, tail 37, tarsus 64. 
Young {bird of the first year). Differs chiefly from the adult in having the loral streak, 
entire head and nape rufous, the feathers of the back, scapulars, and wings with 
rufous margins, the upper tail-coverts and tail dull black tipped with rufous, and 
the entire under-surface of the body white with a tinge of buff on the fore-neck 
and breast. 
Immature (bird of the second year). Shows an advance towards the adult-plumage by 
the appearance of black intermixed with rufous on the head, the black loral streak. 
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