Indian Jacana
| View Cart ⇗ | Info
“Hydrophasianus chirurgus, the Indian Jacana, of most of the Indian Region, is Bronzy-brown above and purplish-black below, with no fleshy outgrowths, but a large sharp spur. The head is white in front, with an intervening black lateral stripe; the wings are mainly white, with curious filamentous appendages to the attenuated blackish outer primaries; the four median feathers of dark brown tail are enormously elongated and decurved. The winter and immature plumage is almost entirely bronzy-brown, with white under surface crossed by a black gorget; but the young have a rufous head.” A. H. Evans, 1900
Keywords
birds, Jacana, fowl, threatened species, threatened birds, Hydrophasianus chirurgus, Indian Jacana, Jacanidae, wader birds, Pheasant-tailed Jacana, Indian birdsGalleries
Birds: J-LSource
Evans, A. H. Birds (New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1900)
Downloads
2400×1526, 600.6 KiB
1024×651, 91.7 KiB
640×406, 42.4 KiB
320×203, 12.9 KiB