loo CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



South Carolina southward. Casual in South Dakota, Colorado, Greenland, 

 southern Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Maine. [Closely related 

 races occur in South America and in the Eastern Hemisphere.] 



Subfamily FULICINAE. Coots. 



Genus FULICA Linnaeus. 



Fulica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 152. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Fulica atra Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



• Fulica atra atra Linnaeus. European Coot. [220.] 



Fulica atra Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 152. (in Europa = 

 Sweden.) 



Range. — Scandinavia, Russia, and Siberia south to the Mediterranean, 

 northwestern Africa, Persia, India, and Japan. Accidental in Greenland,' 

 Iceland, Labrador (Anatalak Bay and Sandwich Bay, December, 1927),- 

 and Newfoundland (Exploits Harbor, December, 1927).^ [Allied races occur in 

 Australia and Tasmania.] 



Fulica americana americana Gmelin. American Coot. [221.] 



Fulica americana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 704. Based on the 

 Cinereous Coot Latham, General Synops., Ill, Pt. 1, 279. (in America 

 septentrionali.) 



Range. — Breeds from central British Coliunbia, southern Mackenzie, 

 central Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, southern Quebec, and New Bruns- 

 wick south to southern Lower California, Tamaulipas, Arkansas, Tennessee, 

 New Jersey, and sporadically in Florida; also in southern Mexico, West 

 Indies, and Nicaragua. Winters from southeastern Alaska, southern British 

 Columbia, Colorado (casually), Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts (casually), 

 and Virginia south to the West Indies and Costa Rica. Casual at Fort 

 Yukon, Alaska, in Greenland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Bermuda. 

 [An allied race occurs in Colombia and northern Ecuador.] 



^ Hagerup, Birds Greenland, 1891, 53. 

 2 Austin, Auk, XL VI, 1929, 208. 

 =• Taverner, Auk, XLVI, 1929, 227. 



