. A dictionary of birds . JACKASS 465 draughtsmen of the country last named making it a favouritesubject of their pictures, in which its fioAving tail and the verypeculiar fihimentous appendages to the tip of its first and fourthprimaries are generally faithfully represented. In habits theJacanas have much in common with the Water-hens, but that factis insufficient to warrant the affinity asserted to exist between thetwo groups; for in their osteological stxucture, as already implied,there is much difference, and the resemblance seems to be only thatof analogy. The Parridx, or at least such of
. A dictionary of birds . JACKASS 465 draughtsmen of the country last named making it a favouritesubject of their pictures, in which its fioAving tail and the verypeculiar fihimentous appendages to the tip of its first and fourthprimaries are generally faithfully represented. In habits theJacanas have much in common with the Water-hens, but that factis insufficient to warrant the affinity asserted to exist between thetwo groups; for in their osteological stxucture, as already implied,there is much difference, and the resemblance seems to be only thatof analogy. The Parridx, or at least such of them as have beensufficiently observed, lay very peculiar eggs, of a rich olive-brown Mi&^MMMh:^. Indian Jacasa, Hydrophasianus chiruigiis. colour, in most cases closely marked with dark lines, thus presentingan appearance by which they may be readily known from those ofany other birds, though an approach to it is occasionally to benoticed in those of certain Lhiiicolx, and especially of certainCharadriidx. The genus Palamedea (Screamer) was at one timethought to be allied to this Family, but is now, by almost commonconsent, allowed to have nothing to do with it. JACKASS, two species of Penguin (resembling one anotherso nearly as to have been long confounded) Spheniscus deinersus and»S^. magellanicus, so called by sailors and by the people of theFalkland Islands ^—the latter from its habit, while on shore, ofthrowing its head backwards, and making a loud strange noise, verylike tlie braying of an ass. (Darwin, Jourmd of Besearches, chap, ix.)With the prefix Laughing, the name is commonly applied to alarge Australian Kingfisher, Dacelo gigas, which makes, says Caley ^ An older n
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