44 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
- the beak, and the beak, are of a clay colour; the 
forehead is white; the throat and quill feathers, 
_and the fecond feathers are white at the tip; the tail 
half way from the bafe is of a dingy white, the 
ret black, with pale reddith tips. This Parra of - 
Senegal, called the Senegal Sandpiper, has a little 
horny black fpur on the joint of each of his wings. 

The negroes call thefe birds Net Net; the | 
French call them Screamers. Mr. Adanfon fays, ' 
the moment they fee a man, they flutter round 
- him, and {cream as loud as they can; this gives 
an alarm to all the birds that are within hearing, 
_and they immediately fly away ; for this reafon : 
fowlers very much diflike the Screamer. | 
| ThegJacana of Brazil, or the Chefnut Jacana, 
is another {pecies of the Parra; he has fpurs on 
his wings, and a kind of flap of {kin on the fore — 
part of his head, and one on each fide of the bafe : | 
of the beak. His toes and nails are extremely 
long; the toe behind is as long as the middle toe 
before ; his nails are ftrait, round, and tharp, like’ 
eles for this reafon, perhaps, the bird has by 
foie been called the sSurgeon. “This fpecies is. 
common in Brazil and other parts of South Ame- 
~ fied: though its legs be long, its body i is not fo 
large as a pigeon’s; it frequents marfhy places, 
| En a the 

