Jacana Sentence Examples

Jacana, black crake and various kingfishers are regularly seen and it is also a good spot for violet touraco.

Closely related to this bird is another first described by Linnaeus as a species of Parra (see Jacana), to which group it certainly does not belong, but separated therefrom by Illiger to form the genus Chauna, and now known as C. chavaria, very generally in English as the " Crested Screamer," a name which was first bestowed on the Seriema.

Latham's name for this species is " Faithful Jacana "- he supposing it to belong to the genus in which Linnaeus placed it.