BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 139 



Etang Miragoane; Lagima Kiiicon) ; St. Croix; Dominica; Grenada; 

 St. Bartholomew ; Jamaica ; Swan Island ; St. Martin ; St. Barts ; St. 

 Kitts ; Montserrat ; Guadeloupe ; Martinique ; St. Lucia ; St. Vincent ; 

 the Grenadines; and Barbados; and south through Mexico (Guana- 

 juato; Chapulco, Pueblo; Orizaba, Veracruz; Cacoprieto, Oaxaca; 

 City of Mexico; Mazatlan, Sinaloa; Progresso and Cozumel Island, 

 Yucatan; La Barca, Jalisco; and throughout Lower California); 

 British Honduras (Belize); Guatemala (Duehas; Vera Paz; 

 Coban; Atitlan) ; Costa Rica (San Jose; Laguna de Cartago; San 

 Pedro; Alajuela; Turrucares) ; Panama (Lion Plill; Almirante; Vol- 

 can de Chiriqui; Changuiniola), to Venezuela (Lake of Valencia and 

 Caracas); Trinidad; Tobago; Colombia (Medellin; Antioquia; Bo- 

 gota ; near Cienaga, Magdalena) ; Ecuador (Quito ; Cayandeled ; La 

 Carolina; Santa Lucia; Chone; Yaguarcocha) ; Peru (Sarayacu and 

 Tumbez) ; Brazil (Bonito, Pernambuco) ; and British Guiana (Bar- 

 tica). 



Occasional in winter in Montana (Corvallis) ; Minnesota (Lanes- 

 boro) ; Illinois (Rantoul) ; Pennsylvania (Kresgeville) ; New York 

 (Rochester and Flushing) ; Connecticut (Hartford) ; and Massa- 

 chusetts (Salem). 



Casual in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Massett) ; Anticosti Island 

 and St. Joachim, Quebec; Newfoundland Labrador (Sandwich Bay) ; 

 and Greenland (Sukkertoppen; Avigaif; and Umanak). 



Accidental in the British Isles: England (Newbury, Berkshire) ; 

 Wales (Cardiff) ; Scotland (Tiree Island and Lewis Island, Outer 

 Hebrides). 



Type locality. — "In America septentrionali"= Hudson Bay. 



[Rallus^ caroUntts Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, i, 1758, 153 ; ed. 12, i, 1766, 263 

 (Hudson Bay; based on Little American Water Hen Edwards, Nat. Hist. 

 Birds, iii, pi. 144; Soree Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, pL 76). — Gmelin, 

 Syst. Nat, i, pt. 2, 1789, 715. 



Rallus carolimis Tueton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 431. — Bonapaete, Ann. Lye. Nat. 

 Hist. New York, ii, 1827, 384. — Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.- 

 Amer., ii, 1831, 403.— Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1831, 537.— Nuttaix, Man. Orn. 

 United States and Canada, Water Birds, 1834, 209.— Audubon, Orn. Biogr., 

 iii, 1835, 251, pi. 233 ; v, 1839, 572.— Townsend, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila- 

 delphia, viii, 1839, 157 (nw. United States). — D'Okbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. 

 Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 262 (Spanish ed., p. 181).— Peaeody, Rep. Orn. Massa- 

 chusetts, 1839, 374. — Haymond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, viii, 

 1856, 296 (se. Indiana).— Willis, Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 

 284 (Nova Scotia).— Beyant, Journ. fiir Orn., siv, 1866, 191 (Puerto Rico) ; 

 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., x, 1866, 257 (Puerto Rico ) .— Sundevall, 

 Ofv. Vet.-Akad. Ftirh., 1869, 587 (St. Bartholomew), 601 (Puerto Rico). 



R[allus'\ carolimis Bonapaete, Obs. Nom. Wilson's Amer. Orn., 1826, [192]. 



[Gallinula'\ Carolina Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 771. 



Ortygometra Carolina Bonapaete, Comp. and Geogr. List, 1838, 53. — Gosse, 

 Birds Jamaica, 1847, 371. — Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zufii and 



