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G[rus] o[finadenf!is] tabida TA\-ERNEa and Hxmos, Ann. Carnegie Mas., z-xiil, 



l!>ri4, 32 in text C southern raoej. 

 O'rMJ* frateroulus EorcAf:!;, Proc. Z^joL fioc. London, 18S3, 4fn (Ti7Am\n, Yaf^atHn). 

 Megalornifs c.-ix^jodi Bailey (H. Hj, Bailey Mu«. and Lihr. Nat. Hist. Bull. 4, 



1930, [2] (Penlnimla of Michigan j. 



GEU.S CA.VADENSI.S PEATENSLS Meyer 



i'ujHiVA Sa:.lhill Cka.-.e 



All plumagfes ars in (x'rv^ cart/r/Jensis canadensis and 6-'n« canrj/lenavi 

 tdbi/la^ but larger than the forrnr^r. and the adult.s with the occiput 

 and hind neck darker than the latter — light mou.se gray to mou.se 

 gray, instead of pallid to pale moii.«e gray. 



Aflvlt r/>./yi«.— iVing 487-525 C507.2/; tail 18^-200 riOl.7; : exyx/rifjd 

 culrnen 115-M3 (130.0; ; tar.su.s 220-2f;i: (2'A.l) : middle toe witPiout 

 claw 77-86.5 (80.1 mm.)'.^'' 



Ad'uU ferroale.—Wmg Ar/yA^Jj (ATiA) : tail 154-182 (170.5; ; ex- 

 posed culmen 119-135.5 (125.1; ; tar-iU-s 22^241 (235; : middle tO€ 

 without claw 74r-80 (76.6 mm.)." 



Range. — ^Resident in southern Georgia (Okefenokee Svramp) ; 

 Florida (Micanoi^y: Waukeenah: Lake Monroe: Lake KisHimmee; 

 Micco: Fort Pierce; Daytona; Fort Myers: Charlotte Harbor; 

 Miakka; Longwood: Tarpon Spring:-:: Cedar Key: Lake Wimlico; De 

 Soto County;; southern Alabama (Baldwin County: Perdido Bay; 

 Foley); and coastal Loui.siana (Hourna; Calcasieu Pass; Cameron 

 Parish: Black Bayou: Mer Rouge — in v/inter;. 



Casoial in South Carolina (Waccamaw Biver; Sandy Knowe; b*i- 

 tween P»inta Gorda and Fisheating Creek; ; Mississippi (Waverly. 

 winter; : and Texas (Sabine Pass — in winter;. 



7'y/>^ locality. — ^Alachua Savanna, Clay County, Fla. 



0'ru« praterufus ilKTEE, ZooL AnnaL, I, 1794, 2S6, 2&6 TFlOTWa; bas^l on ^/r«-» 

 prattinMi, ry/rpr/re rnnereo, veriic^. papxUo>.o Bartram, TTaveLs, 1791, 293;. — 

 Coxx-s, Cfaeck-lLst, ed- 2, 1%%2, No. fi70, iiart fei Banrsim). — EiiXiWAy, Cat- 

 Aj-jnat. and Ffeh-*:atirjg Bird^, 1883, 18, part 



0= 'rv«] pratenJiu Couzs. Key North Amer. Birds, ed- 2-, 1484, '587, part. 



Crry* canMdenH^ prateniHi AjiEEiCAX OexithoijOGISTs' U3fKe?, Cbeck-li«t North 

 Amer. Birdi-, ed. 4, 1931, 94.— Hov/ell, Florida Bird Life, liJ32, 55r7 ^ genl. ; 

 Florida;. — Petkes, Cbeck-lLst Bird.=j of World, ii, 1934, 152. — OKZZHOfjReB, 

 Bird Life Loulsiaria, 19i38, 19^ (rare, perm^Bent xfisMhut in H.w. L//tii*I- 

 ana; breeding Canieroii Paru-h, July 1919; formerly more cimierotii?;, — 

 MclLHE^yT, Auk, Iv, 1938, .598 President — yhmlmlppl ; nesting 7 mfk« 

 eaiit of Ooean Springs). 



ifegalomU cancdenHii pratetiM^ Hazitzt, Vog. paL Fanna, ili, 1921, 1818 

 fcrlt-j. — ^Petees, Atik, xlii, Jan. l^i'i, 121, 1^ (fcrit.; type Irjcality fixed a« 

 Clay Otmty, Fla.;,— E.uorr ar;d Wbic-ht, Wil«. Bull., xllii, 1561, 198 Ta. 

 I/misiana; nesting, Cameron Parish, 1&17). 



-' Specimais from Horfda (8) and Ge<irgia (1). 

 ^'@^t ^ecbii«i« from Vlorida. 



