94 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Grus canadensis tabida (Peters). Sandhill Crane. [206.] 



Megalornis cnnndensis tabida Peters, Auk, XLII, No. 1, Jan. 2, 1925, 122. 

 (Valley of the South Fork of the Humboldt River, Nevada.) 



Range. — Bred, formerly, from British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, 

 and southwestern Michigan south to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Illinois, 

 and Ohio and in migration east to New England; now rare east of the Missis- 

 sippi and rare or extinct as a breeding bird in the southern half of its former 

 range but still breeds from northeastern California, Wisconsin and Michigan 

 northward. Winters from California, Texas, and Louisiana south to. Mexico. 



Grus canadensis pratensis Meyer. Florida Crane. [206a.] 



Grus pratensis F. A. A. Meyer, Zool. Annalen, I, 1794, 286. Based on 

 Grus pratensis, corpore cinereo, vertice papillosa, the great savanna crane 

 Bartram, Travels, 293. (Florida = Clay County, Florida.) 



Range. — Peninsular Florida and southern Georgia (Okefinokee Swamp), 

 casually to South Carolina, and probably southern Alabama and Louisiana. 



Family ARAMIDAE. Limpkins. 



Genus ARAMUS Vieillot. 



Aramus Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 58. Type, by monotypy, Courliri, 

 BuFFON = Ardea scolopacea Gmelin. 



Aramus pictus pictus (Meyer). Limpkin. [207.] 



Tantalus pictus "Bartram" F. A. A. Meyer, Zool. Annalen, I, 1794, 287. 

 Based on Tantulus pictus, the crying bird Bartram, Travels, 293. 

 (circa fluvium Sti. Johannis, nee non circa Floridae et Georgiae lacus 

 = St. Johns River, Florida.) 



Range. — Okefinokee Swamp, Georgia, and peninsular Florida west to the 

 Wakulla River; also in Cuba. Casual north to South Carolina. Now local 

 and greatly reduced in numbers. [Allied races occur in Mexico, Central 

 America and Haiti.] 



