ORDER CHARADRIIFORMES. 101 



Order CHARADRIIFORMES. Shore Birds, 

 Gulls, Auks, and Allies. 



Suborder CHARADRII. Jacanas and Shore Birds. 



SuPERFAMiLY JACANOIDEA. Jacanas. 



Family JACANIDAE. Jacanas. 



Genus JACANA Brisson. 



Jacana Brisson, Orn., 1760, I, 48; V, 12L Type, by tautonymy, 

 JacaiM Brisson = Parra jacana Linnaeus. 



Subgenus ASARCIA Sharpe. 



Asarda Sharpe, Catal. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIV, 1896, 86. Type, by 

 monotypy, Parra variabilis Linnaeus = /^wZica spinosa Linnaeus. 



Jacana spinoEja gynmostoma (Wagler). Mexican Jacana. [288.] 



Parra gymnostoma Wagler, Isis von Oken, [XXIV] 1831, Heft, v (May), 

 col. 517. (Mexico.) 



Range. — Rio Grande Valley, Texas, and Mexico. Accidental in Florida (?).i 

 [A closely related race occurs from Central America to Panama.] 



SuPERFAMiLY CHARADRIOIDEA. Shore Birds. 

 Family HAEMATOPODIDAE. Oyster-catchers. 



Genus HAEMATOPUS Linnaeus. 



Hcematopus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 152. Type, by mono- 

 typy, Hamatopus ostralcgus Linnaeus. 



• Haematopus ostialegus ostralegus Linnaeus. European Oyster-catcher. 



[285.] 



Haematopus Ostralegus Linnaeus, Sj^st. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 152. (in 

 Europae, Americae septentrionalis littoribus marinis = Oeland Island, 

 Sweden.) 



1 The Florida specimen is not extant and its identity can not be definitely 

 determined. It was probably J. s. violacea Cory; cf. Cory, Bull. Nuttall Om. 

 Club, VI, No. 3, July, 1881, 130; Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., X, Jan, 1916, 219. 



