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County; Oklawaha River; Weekiwachee River; Lee, Orange, and 

 Putnam Counties; Emeralda Marsh between Lake Yale and Lake 

 Griffin ; Withlacoochee River ; Chassahowitzka River) ; and also in 

 Cuba (Camaguay ; San Pablo; Aguada de Pasajeros; Zapata Swamp; 

 rare in western Cuba); the Isle of Pines (Nueva Gerona; Santa 

 Barbara; Nuevas River; West McKinley; Pasadita) ; and Jamaica 

 (Bluefields; St. Davids Parish; the mountainous districts of St. Ann, 

 St. Dorothy, and the Coona-coonas ; Cayamanas district; Paradise 

 River; Grand Vale; Hampstead). 



Casual in the Florida Keys (Indian Key; Dry Tortugas) ; and in 

 South Carolina (Charleston; Twigs Dead River; Aiken County). 



Doubtful, accidental record from Illinois (Philo, Champaign 

 County), and New Jersey (Long Branch). 



Type locality. — St. Johns River, Fla. 



Tantalus pictus "Bartram," Meyer (F. A. A.), Zool. Annal., i, 1794, 287 (St. 

 Johns River, Fla.).— Axlen (J. A.), Amer. Nat, x, 1876, 28. 



Aramus pictus Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1875, 354 (Florida; 

 based on Tantalus pictus, etc., Bartram, Travels, 293) ; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 V, 1880, 101 ; Check List, ed. 2, 1882, No. 671.— Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 iii, 1880, 202 (Cat. North Amer. Birds, No. 581) ; Norn. North Amer. Birds, 

 1881, No. 581.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 43, in text (Wekiva 

 River, nw. Florida; habits, notes, etc.). — Bailey (H. B.), Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, viii, 1883, 42 (St. Simon Island, Ga., breeding). — Baikd, Brewer, and 

 RiDGWAY, Water Birds North Amer., i, 1884, 400, part.^ — Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 238, part (Florida; Jamaica). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 333, part (West Indies). — ? Wetmore, 

 Smiths. Misc. Coll., Ixxxv, No. 2, 1931, 37 (Pleistocene remains; Florida- 

 Seminole area and Itahtucknee River). 



A [ramusi pictus Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 668. 



Aramus pictus pictus Peters, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., v, 1925, 142 (crit. ; 

 syn. ; descr. ; range). — Ambhucan Ornithologists' Union, Check-list North 

 Amer. Birds, ed. 4, 1931, 94.— DuMont, Auk, xlix, 1932, 237 (Kissimmee River, 

 Fla.)— PIowELL, Florida Bird Life, 1932, 199 (genl. ; Florida ) .—Havemeyer, 

 Auk, 1, 1933, 370 (large colony between Lake Rosalie and Tiger Lake, Fla.) — 

 Cottam, Wils. Bull, xlviii, 1936, 11 in text (food habits). — Oberholser, Bird 

 Life Louisiana, 1938, 197 (Moss Lake, La., May 1935, only record for the 

 State). 



Aramus scolopaccus pictus Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 155. 



Alramus] s[colopaceus] pictus Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 85 in text (Cuba, 

 Isle of Pines, and Jamaica ; accidental on Cay Lobos, Bahamas ; also Flor- 

 ida and se. Georgia). 



N[umc7iius~\ vociferus Latham, Index Orn., Suppl., 1801, Ixv (Georgia; based 

 on Ephoukyca, Crying Bird Bartram, Travels, 1791, 145, 291 ; etc.). 



Numenius vociferus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xiii, 1817, 305 (Florida; 

 Georgia). 



Jbis vociferus Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xii, pt. i, 1824, 8 (St. Johns River, 

 Fla. ; lakes of Florida and Georgia). 



Aramus vociferus American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, 1908, 

 364, part; Check List, ed. 3, 1910, 101, part.— Cory, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. 

 Publ. 131, 1909, 380 (Philo, Champaign County, 111., 1 specimen, 1896).— 



