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North Carolina (Weaverville; New Bern; Fort Macon); south to 

 Florida (south to Cape Sable) ; Louisiana (Diamond; Belle Isle) ; and 

 California (Riverside County). Also reported casually from Mary- 

 land (Prince Georges County) and New York (Seaford; Ithaca) ; also 

 from Bermuda, Cuba (one doubtful record) ; and from New Bruns- 

 wick. 



Type locality. — New York. 



\Fulica'\ noveboraccnsis Gmei>in, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 17S9, 701 (New York; based 

 on Tellow-hreasted Gallinule Pennant, Arctic Zool., ii, 1785, 491 ; Latham. 

 Synopsis Birds, iii, pt. 1, 1785, 262). 



Fulica novoehoracensis Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1802, 428. 



GnUhnila noveboraccnsis Latham, Index Oru., ii, 1790, 771. 



OrtyffOinctra noveboraccnsis Stephens, Sliaw's Gen. Zool., xii, pt. 1, 1824, 222. — 

 BoNAPAETE, Geogr. and Comp. List, 1838, 53. — Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 213 ; 

 Birds Amer., 8vo ed., v, 1842, 152, pi. 307. — Linsley, Amer. Journ. Sci. and 

 Arts, xliv, 1843, 268 (Connecticut).— Jardine, Contr. Orn., 1848, 84 (Bermuda, 

 Oct., 2 specimens). — Hurdis, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 11 (Bermuda, Oct. 

 1847, 2 specimens). — Pratten, Trans. Illinois Agr. Assoc, i, 1855, 607 (Illi- 

 nois). — Putnam, Proc. Essex Inst., i, 1856, 229 (Essex County, Mass.).— 

 Bland, Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 287 (Bermuda). 



Ort[yffomctra] noveboracensis Martens, Journ. fiir Orn., vii, 1859, 220 

 (Bermuda). 



Rallus noveboracensis Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, ii, 1827, 335 ; 

 Specchio Comp., 1827, 212 ; Amer. Orn., iv, 1832, 136, pi. 27, fig. 2.— Swainson 

 and RiCHAiiDsoN, Fauna Bor.-Amer., ii, 1831, 402 (descr. ; Severn River). — 

 Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 538. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. United States and 

 Canada, Water Birds, 1834, 215.— Audubon, Orn. Biogr., iv, 1838, 251, pi. 

 329; V, 1839, 574.— Peabody, Rep. Orn. Massachusetts, 1839, 375.— Wnjas, 

 Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 284 (Nova Scotia). 



Cotiirnicops noveboracensis Bonaparte'. Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. 4, i. No. 2, 1854, 46. — 

 Brewer, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, 1875, 447 (New England). — 

 Preble, North Amer. Fauna, No. 27, 1908, 314 (delta of Great Slave Lake, 

 July 17 ; Athabasca Lake ; Little Buffalo River, 50 miles s. of Fort Resolu- 

 tion). — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, 1908, 364; 

 Check4ist, cd. 3, 1910, 104; ed. 4, 1931, 98.— Braislin, Auk, xxvi, 1909, 214 

 (Seaford, Long Island, Sept., Dec. 4, and Jan. 10).^ — Cory. Field Mus. Nat. 

 Hist. Publ. 131, 1909, 384 (Illinois; Wisconsin).— Wayne, Birds South Caro- 

 lina, 1910, 38 (winter resident, Oct. 2(>-Mar. 30).— Eaton, Birds New York, i, 

 1910, 250 pi. 26 (numerous records). — Willett, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 7, 

 1912, 33 (Newport Bay, Orange County, Calif., Dec. 12, 1896).— Swales, Auk, 

 xxix, 1912, lOO (Wayne County, Mich., Apr. 22, 1911; also Mar. 25, 1908; 

 mouth of Thames River, Lake St. Clair, Ontario, June). — Barrows, Mich- 

 igan Bird Life, 1912, 159. — Forbush, Game-Birds, Wild-fowl, and Shore- 

 birds, 1912, 213 (habits).— Fay, Auk, xxix, 1912, 237 (West Roxbury, Mass., 

 Oct. 3, 1911; Chatham, Oct. 2, 1911, and Nov. 25, 1911).— Sage, Bishop, and 

 Bliss, Birds Connecticut, 1913, 10.— Bunker, Kansas Univ. Sci. Bull. 7, 1913, 

 143 (Kansas, summer resident). — Hathaway, Auk, xxx, 1913, 550 (Rhode 

 Island records).— Morris, Auk, xxx, 1913, 580 (near Springfield, Mass., 

 Aug. 26, 1913) .—Cooke, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 128, 1914, 31, fig. 13 (geogr. 

 range and migration routes). — Lincoln, Auk, xxxi, 1914, 256 (Barr, Colo., 

 July 1906).— Grinnell (J.), Pacific Coast Avif., No. 11, 1915, 47 (numerous 



