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Wayne, Birds South Carolina, 1910, 35 (Aiken County, October 18, 1890; 

 Charleston, July 1904).— Baynard, Auk, xxx, 1913, 243 (Alachua County, 

 Fla., breeding). — Wright and Harper, Auk, xxx, 1913, 493 (Okefenokee 

 Swamp, Ga.).— CooKE, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 128, 1914, 13, fig. 4, part (range 

 and migration routes).— Shufeldt, Anat. Rec, ix, 1915, 591-606 (osteology). 

 — Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., x, 1916, 204 (Nueva Gerona and Pasadita, Isle 

 of Pines; crit., measurements; habits). — Bangs and Kennard, List Birds 

 Jamaica, 1920, 6 (formerly common resident, now nearly extirpated by mon- 

 goose).— Pearson, Auk, xxxviii, 1921, 599 (now rare along Oklawaha River, 

 Fla.). — Barbour, Mem. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1923, 57 (Cuba; resident; habits). 

 —Pearson, Auk, xli, 1924, 599 in text (Camaguay, Cuba ) .-Bailey, Birds 

 Florida, 1925, 40, pi. 20 (fig., descr. ; distr. ; Florida ) .—Gardner, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., Ixvii, art. 19, 1925, 16 in text, pi. 7 (structure of tongue). — Bent 

 and CoPELAND, Auk, xliv, 1927, 377 (Wekiva Lake; Weekiwachee River, 

 Fla.). 



Araimis vociferus vociferus Miller (W. DeW.) and Griscom, Amer. Mus. Nov., 

 No. 25, 1921, 12, 13 (Florida; Okefenokee Swamp, Ga. ; South Carolina).— 

 Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 135, 1927, 255 (life history ; monogr.). 



Aramus viociferus} vociferus Christy, Auk, xlv, 1928, 287 (Everglades, s. 

 Florida ) . 



R[allus^ gigajiteus Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sei. Philadelphia, v, pt. 1, 

 1825, 31 (type locality, by context, Florida; Long Branch, N. J.). 



Aramus giganteus Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 657 (Indian Key, 

 Fla.) ; Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 481. — Sclatijj, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1861, 81 (Jamaica) ; Rev. List Birds Jamaica. 1910, 20.— Taylor, 

 Ibis, 1862, 129 (Florida).— Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., x, 1862, 206 (Ja- 

 maica). — Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 11, 1871, 302 (e. Florida).— 

 Merriam, Amer. Nat., viii, 1874, 89 (Florida). — Gundlach, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., xxii, 1874, 353 (Cuba; habits) ; Contr. Orn. Cubana, 1876, 186; Orn. 

 Cubana, 1895, 237. — American Ornithologists' Union Check-list, 1886, and 

 ed. 2, 1895, No. 207, part.— Wayne, Auk. x, 1893, 337 (Suwannee River, nw. 

 Florida, breeding) ; xxiii, 1906, 231 in text (Twiggs Dead River, Aiken 

 County, S. C, 2 specimens, Oct. 18, 1890).— Cory, Auk, v, 1888, 50, part 

 (Cuba) ; Birds West Indies, 1889, 251, part; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, 

 90, part (Cuba, Isle of Pines; Jamaica). — Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., iv, 1892, 288 (San Pablo, s. Cuba ) .—Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 122 

 (Jamaica). — Bonhote, Auk. xx, 1903, 175 (Cay Lobos, Bahamas, 3 speci- 

 mens, Jan. 28, 1901). — Nicholson, Auk, xlvii, 1930, 267 (nesting in Florida). 



[Aramus] giganteus Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., ix, 1861, 342 (Cuba) ; Rep. 

 Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865-1866, 360.— Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 59, Ino. 

 10407 (Jamaica).— Cory, List Birds West Indies, 1885, and rev. ed., 1886, 

 29, part.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 180, part. 



A[ramus] giganteus Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 115. — 

 Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 136, part (Greater Antilles and 

 Florida). 



[Aramus scolopaceus] var. giganteus Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 271. 



Aramus scolopaceus . . . var giganteus Coues, Check List, 1874, No. 464. 



Rallus scolopaceus (not Ardea scolopacea Gmelin) Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. Nat. 

 Hist. New York, iii, 1826-28, 156, in text part. 



Aramus scolopaceus Vigors, Zool. Journ., iii, 1827, 447 (Cuba). — Bonaparte, Ann. 

 Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, ii, 1827, 309 : Contr. Maclurian Lye, i, 1827, 25 ; 

 Amer. Orn., iii, 1828, 111, pi. 26 ; Geogr. and Comp. List, 1838, 53.— Lesson, 

 Trait(5 d'Orn., 1831, 569, part (s. United States; Florida; Cuba ) .— Nuttall, 



