Closely related to this bird is another first described by Linnaeus as a species of Parra (see Jacana), to which group it certainly does not belong, but separated therefrom by Illiger to form the genus Chauna, and now known as C. chavaria, very generally in English as the " Crested Screamer," a name which was first bestowed on the Seriema. [Please select]
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The Comb-crested Jacana has been found in the Philippine Islands, apparently only in Mindanao. [Please select]
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The Jacana belongs to a small family of birds with representatives throughout the tropics. [Please select]
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COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page [288] Mexican Jacana Jacana spinosa 102 Order GALLINÃ. [Please select]
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[22] Compare Bishop Stanley's account of the larger tropical 'Jacana,' p. [Please select]
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Two species of jacana occur in India: the bronze-winged (_Motopus indicus_) and the pheasant-tailed jacana or the water-pheasant (_Hydrophasianus chirurgus_). [Please select]
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The eggs of the bronze-winged jacana have a rich brownish-bronze background, on which black lines are scribbled in inextricable confusion, so that the egg looks as though Arabic texts had been scrawled over it. [Please select]
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