1 66 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B 512, C 404, R 507, C 596.] 



HAB. Sea-coasts of temperate and tropical America, from New 

 Jersey and Lower California to Patagonia ; occasional or accidental 

 on the Atlantic coast north to Massachusetts and Grand Menan. 



287. Heematopus bachmani AUD. 



Black Oyster-catcher. 



Hcematopus bachmani AUD. Orn. Biog. V. 1839, 2 45> pi- 4 2 7- 

 [B 513, C 405, R 508, C 597.] 



HAB. Pacific coast of North America, from Alaska to Lower Cali- 

 fornia. 



FAMILY JACANID^J. JACANAS. 



GENUS JACANA BRISSON. 



Jacana Buiss. Orn. V. 1760, 121. Type, by elimination, Fulica spi- 

 nosa LINN. 



[288.] Jacana gymnostoma (\VAGL.). 



Mexican Jacaiia. 



Parra gvmnostoma WAGLER, Isis, 1831, 517. 



Jacana gymnostoma ZELEDON, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 1885, 114. 



[B , C R 568, C 672.] 



HAB. Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, south to Central America ; 

 Cuba. 



