BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 27 



Adult female.— Wing 425-475 (440.8) ; tail 162-171 (167.2) ; ex- 

 posed culmen 100-124 (110.2) ; tarsus 187-214 (196.8 mm.) ^^ 



Range. — Resident in Cuba (western Pinar del Rio — chiefly in arid 

 savanna country — Vinales, Mendoza; Guane; Matanzos Province — 

 Alacranes; Union de Reyes; Aguada de Pasajeros; Puerto Principe) ; 

 and the Isle of Pines (Pasadeta; La Vega; Los Indios). 



Type locality. — La Vega, Isle of Pines. 



Qrus canadensis (not Ardea canadensis Linnaeus) Hartlaub, Naumannia, il, 



1852, 54 (Cuba).— Cabanis, Journ. fur Orn., 1856, 339 (Cuba; habits).— 



Theinemann, Journ. fur Orn., 1857, 154 (Cuba; descr. eggs). — Brewek, 



Proc. Boston See. Nat. Hist., vii, 1860, 308 (Cuba).— Gundlach, Journ. 



fur Orn., 1862, 81 (Cuba; crit.) ; 1875, 293 (Cuba; liabits) ; Contr. Orn. 



Cubana, 1876, 143. 

 [Grus] canadensis Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 338 (Cuba) ; Rep. Fisico- 



Nat. Cuba, i, 1865-66, 347. 

 Grus poliophaea (not of Wagler) Lembeye, Aves Isla de Cuba, 1850, 80. — 



Beewee, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, 1860, 308 (Cuba). 

 [Grus] mexicana (not Ardea (Grus) mexicana Mliller) Cory, List Birds West 



Indies, 1885, and rev. ed. 188G, 29 (Cuba). 

 Grus mexicana Coey, Auk, v, 1888, 50 (Cuba; references) ; Bii'ds West Indies, 



1889, 251 (Cuba) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, 90 (Cuba; Isle of Pines). 

 Grus nesiotes Bangs and Zappey, Amer. Nat., xxxix, Apr. 1905, 190 (La Vega, 



Isle of Pines, Cuba; coll. E. and O. Bangs). — Bangs, BuU. Mus. Comp. 



Zool., Ixx, 1930, 178 (type spec, in Mus. Comp. Zool.). 

 Grus mexicana nesiotes Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., x, 1916, 205 (Los Indios, 



Isle of Pines; measurements; habits; food). 

 Grus mcxicanus nesiotes Barbour, Mem. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1923, 58 (Province 



Pinar del Rio, Cuba; Isle of Pines; crit.). — Danforth, Journ. Agr. Univ. 



Puerto Rico, xix, 1935, 425 (seen near Ciego de Avila, Cuba). 

 Grus canadensis nesiotes Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 152. 

 0[rus] c[anadensis] nesiotes Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 83 in text (descr.; 



Cuba, especially western part, 'and Isle of Pines). 

 Megalornis canadensis nesiotes Oberholser, Auk, xxxviii, Jan. 1921, 82. — Hartebt, 



Vog. pal. Fauna, iii, 1921, 1818 (crit.). 

 Megalornis nesiotes Peters, Auk, xlii, 1925, 120. in text. 

 Megalornis mexicanus Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 135, 1927, 241, part (Cuba; 



life hist). 



Family ARAMIDAE : Courlans, or Limpkins 



=Aramidae Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., ii, 1857 [1854], 103. — Baird, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 651, 657.— Fijebringer, Unters. Morph. Syst. Vog., 

 ii, 1888, 1207.— Wetmoee and Millee, Auk, xliii, 1926, 342.— Wetmore, 

 Proc. U. S. K-at. Mus., Ixxvi, art. 24, 1930, 4; Smiths. Misc. Coll., Ixxxix, 

 No. 13, 1934, 6; xcix, No. 7, 1940, 6.— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, 

 ii, 1934, 155. 



=Aramidse Sct.ater and Salvin, Nom, Av. Neotr., 1873, viii, 141. — Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds North Amer., i, 1884, 350, 398- — Coues, 



" Four specimens, from Cuba and Isle of Pines ; measurements ex Todd, Ann. 

 Carnegie Mus., x, 1916, 206. 



