Jacana

There are several species of "jacana" in South America, and also some species in the tropical countries of the East. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

Rare and endangered species include the birds scarlet ibis (Eudocimus ruber), and wattled jacana (Jacana jacana), the mammals tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis) and manatee Trichechus manatus, and several marine turtles, for whom it is a breeding area. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Embassy, 012 -3443910, 083 -4592001 margriet. [email protected], or Jacana media: 0111 - 648 1157, www. jacana.co.za ❋ Unknown (2005)

Going back to my chair, I found that neither jacana, nor gallinules, nor herons had been disturbed by my shot. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

As I looked, a small crocodile rose, splashed, and sank, sending terror among the gallinules, but arousing the spur-wing jacana to a high pitch of anger. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

Out at the center a fussy jacana was feeding with her two spindly-legged babies, while, still nearer, three scarlet-helmeted gallinules lumbered about, now and then tipping over a silvery and black infant which seemed puzzled as to which it should call parent. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

The jacana invariably lays four eggs, and the gallinule, at this latitude, six or eight, yet only a fraction of the young had survived even to this tender age. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

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. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

Two species of jacana occur in India: the bronze-winged (_Motopus indicus_) and the pheasant-tailed jacana or the water-pheasant ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

The bronze-winged jacana does not grow these long tail feathers. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

They are the pheasant-tailed and the bronze-winged jacana. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

The nearest approach to a generalisation which it is possible to make is that the egrets and paddy-birds are usually the first of the monsoon breeders to begin nest-building, while the spot-billed duck, the whistling teal and the bronze-winged jacana are the last. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

The bronze-winged jacana is a black bird with bronze wings. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

The singular wattled, wing-spurred, and long -, toed jacana has a remarkable performance, which seems specially designed to bring out the concealed beauty of the silky, greenish-golden wing-quills-The birds go singly or in pairs, and a dozen or fifteen individuals may be found in a marshy place feeding within sight of each other. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Of the birds I am acquainted with, the beautiful jacana (Parra jacana) appears to come into the world with its faculties and powers in the most advanced state. ❋ Unknown (1881)

In the ypecaha and jacana displays both sexes take part. ❋ Unknown (1881)

A still more interesting bird was the jacana, as it is spelt in books, but pronounced ya-sa-NA by the Indians of Paraguay, a quaint rail-like bird supposed to be related to the plover family: black and maroon-red in colour, the wing-quills a shining greenish yellow, it has enormously long toes, spurs on its wings, and yellow wattles on its face. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Only once did Cummings allow any shooting to be done, and then it was to bring down a jacana that the boys might see the long spur, sharp as steel, which nature has placed under the wing, thus rendering him a formidable antagonist even to the boa. ❋ James Otis (1880)

Wading and aquatic birds were abundant in the marshes, amongst which white cranes and a chocolate-brown jacana, with lemon-yellow under wing, were the most conspicuous. ❋ Thomas Belt (1855)

[I live] in Jacana and although its right next to [Broady] i have only been [stabbed] twice. :) ❋ The Waterhorse (2008)