Zoological Illustrations, Second Series, Volume 1 / or, Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals

by William Swainson

African Jacana
Parra Africana.

PARRA Africana.

African Jacana.

Family Rallidæ.
Generic Character.—See Lesson Man. 2. p. 285.

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Specific Character.

Above deep cinnamon; crown of the head naked; throat white; breast fulvous; neck and quills black; spur on the wing obsolete.

Parra Africana. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 764.