. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 86 P ABRIDGE. 6. Fig. 10.—Head of Asarcia, to show form of lappet. 1. Asarcia variabilis. The Spur-winged Water-hen, Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, i. p. 48,. pi. 48 (1743). Parra variabilis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 260 (1776). Jacana du Bre'sil, Daubent. PL Enl. ix. pi. 846. Le Jacana varie, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 192 (1781). Parra jacana (nee Linn.), Shaw, Gen. Zool. xii. pt. 1, p. 263 (1824) ; I)'Orb. in Ramon de la Sayra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 249 (1840) ; Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. vii. p. 308 (1860); Gundl. J. f. O
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 86 P ABRIDGE. 6. Fig. 10.—Head of Asarcia, to show form of lappet. 1. Asarcia variabilis. The Spur-winged Water-hen, Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, i. p. 48,. pi. 48 (1743). Parra variabilis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 260 (1776). Jacana du Bre'sil, Daubent. PL Enl. ix. pi. 846. Le Jacana varie, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 192 (1781). Parra jacana (nee Linn.), Shaw, Gen. Zool. xii. pt. 1, p. 263 (1824) ; I)'Orb. in Ramon de la Sayra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 249 (1840) ; Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. vii. p. 308 (1860); Gundl. J. f. O. 1875, p. 338 (Cuba) ; id. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. vii. p. 385 (1878: Porto Rico). Parra gymnostoma, Wayler, Isis, 1831, p. 517; Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 589 (1846); Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 283, 1857, p. 206 (Jalapa), 1858, p. 360 (Honduras) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 64 (Belize, &c.); Scl. $ Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 231 (Belize; Peten); G. C. Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 314 (Honduras) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ralli, p. 66 (1865); Salv. Ibis, 1870, p. 116 (Costa Rica) ; id. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 218; Gray, Hand-l. B. p. 70, no. 10532 (1871); Scl. $ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 142 (1873); Laivr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii p. 312 (Mazatlan; Manzanillo Bay; Zacatula River; Rio de Coahuajana) ; Merrill, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, i. p. 88 (1876: S. Texas) ;' Lawr. Bull, Nat. Mus. iv. p. 50 (1876); Merrill, Pr. Nat. Mus. i. p. 167 (1878); Ridrjw. t. c. p. 167, pi. iii. figs. 1, 2 ; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1881, pp. 642, 646; Ridyw. Pr. Nat. Mus. iii. pp. 221, 223; Nuttiny, op. cit. v. p. 409 (1882: Costa Rica), vi. pp. 390, 396 (1883: Nicaragua) ; Salvin, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 428 (Acapulco); Baird, Brewer, $ Ridyw. Water-B. North Amer. i. p. 176 (1884); Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd edit. p. 669 (1884); Cory,B. St. Dominqo, p. 159, pi. 20 (1885); Ridyw. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 183 (1887); Salvin, Ibis, 1889, pp. 89, 379 (Cozumel). Parra cordifera, Less. Rev. Zool, 1842, p. 135 (Acapulco); Des Murs,
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