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Title: A general history of birds
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Latham, John, 1740-1837
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Winchester (Eng.) Printed by Jacob and Johnson, for the author sold in London by G. and W.B. Whittaker (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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at like that of a Gull; topof the head deep brown ; over the eye a stripe of white, passingdown on each side of the neck, and changing into pale yellowbehind the eye; through the eye another stripe of ash-colour, ac-companies the first, quite down to the wing; back brown; beneathfrom chin to vent white, except a large spot of brown on the breast;at the bend of the wing a sharp spur; the lesser wing coverts white,the others pale brown, transversely barred with black ; the secondquills white, the prime black ; from the three or four of the last oflast of these arise as many naked shafts, two inches long, and endingin lance-shaped, feathered points ; they spring from the middle ofthe shaft of the feather to which they belong, the shaft appearingdivided, or branching into two at that part; legs and toes very long,as in others, and dusky black. Inhabits the Island of Manilla, chiefly in the moist places,borders of the sea, lakes, and rivers, and has the manners usual toothers of the Genus.
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9 ot-l K JACANA. 391 A. — Bill greenish, shaped as in the former; crown of the head,neck behind, and back, brown; above the eyes white; along theside of the neck a yellow stripe, divided from the fore part by asecond of black, finishing on the breast; excepting this all theunder parts are white; wing coverts white, crossed with a few barsof brown ; prime quills black, ending in two projecting narrowfeathers; tail cuneiform, brown; legs pea-green. Inhabits India, where it is called a Plover.* Found also inCeylon, where it is called Een-Yahn-wah.f 9—CHINESE JACANA,—Pl. clix. Parra Siuensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 704. Gm. Lin. i. 709.Vuppi-pi Jacana, View of Hindoost. ii. 159.Chinese Jacana, Gen. Syn. v. 240. Id. Sup. ii. 324. LENGTH twenty-one inches. Bill dusky; forehead, crown, andbeneath, to the breast, pale cinereous cream-colour ; back part of thehead black ; of the neck yellow, divided from the white before bya line of black on each side; body vinaceous red; wing covertswhite; quill

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