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Ixtacaleo) ; Guatemala (Lake Atitlan; Lake of Duenas; Lake Peten; 

 San Lucas) ; Honduras (Lake Yojoa) ; Nicaragua (Escondido 

 River),; Costa Rica (Juan Vinas; Las Corcovas) ; and western Pan- 

 ama (Veraguas; and Chiriqui Lagoon) ; the Gulf States; Florida; 

 and the Bahama Islands (Abaco; New Providence; Rum Cay; Great 

 Inagua) . Occasional in winter north to Labrador (Table Bay) , New 

 York, Rhode Island, Comiecticut, Massachusetts, Indiana, and Puerto 

 Rico. 



Type locality. — North America. 



\_Fnlica^ amer'icana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 704 (North America ; based 

 on Cinereoiis Coot Latliam, Synopsis Birds, iii, pt. 1, 1785, 279). — Latham, 

 Index Orn., ii, 1790, 779.— Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 67, no. 10515.— Coues, 

 Key Nortti Amer. Birds, 1872, 275. — Sclatee and Slavin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 

 1873, 140, part.— Cory, List Birds West Indies, 1885, and rev. ed., 1886, 30, 

 part (Bahamas). — Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 110, part. 



Fulica americana Vieiixot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xiii, 1817, 50. — Stephens, 

 Shaw's Gen. Zool., xii, pt. 1, 1824, 238. — Bonaparte, Obs. Wilson's Amer. 

 Orn., 1826, [200] ; Contr. Maclurian Lye., i, 1827, 28 ; Ann. Lye. Nat. 

 Hist. New York, ii, 1827, 338; Comp. and Geogr. List, 1838, 53.— Swain- 

 soN and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., ii, 1831, 404. — Nuttall, Man. 

 Orn. United States and Canada, Water Birds, 1834, 229.— Townsend, 

 Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1839, 157 (nw. United States).— 

 Vigors, Zool. Voy. Blossom, 1839, 29 (listed; no locality. — Audubon, 

 Orn. Biogr., iii, 1835, 291, pi. 239; v, 1839, 568; Synopsis, 1839, 212; 

 Birds Amer., Svo ed., v, 1842, 138, pi. 305.— Peaeody, Rep. Orn. Massa- 

 chusetts, 1839, 375.— Lieb, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, i, 1841, 124 

 (descr. nest and eggs). — Jardinb, Contr. Orn., 1848, 84 (Bermuda in win- 

 ter). — Hurdis, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 11 (Bermuda, Nov., Dec, May). — 

 Hahtlaub, Journ. fiir Orn., 1853, extra Heft, 87 (monogr.) ; 1855, 99 (descr.; 

 crit.). — Thompson, Nat. Hist. Vermont, 1853, 107. — W axles, Geol. Rep. Mis- 

 sissippi, 1854, 322 (Mississippi). — Kennioott, Trans. Illinois Agri. Assoc, 

 i, 1855, 586 (Illinois).— Sclater, Proc Zool. Soc. London, 1857, 206 (Jalapa, 

 Veracruz) ; 1859, 369 (Jalapa) ; 1864, 179 (City of Mexico).— Cabanis, 

 Journ. fur Orn., 1856, 429 (Cuba). — Brewer, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 vii, 1860, 307 (Cuba).— Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 

 751; Proc Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, xvi, 1862, 322 (California).— Baird, 

 Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 26 (Espia, Sonora ; San 

 Pascual, Lower California) ; Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, no. 559; Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1859, 306 (Cape San Lucas, Lower Cali- 

 fornia). — Moobe, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859, 64 (Chilomo, Honduras). — 

 Henry, Proc Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vii, 1855, 314 (New Mexico) ; 

 xi, 1859, 108 (New Mexico). — Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc Nat. Hi.st., vii, 

 1859, 122 (Bahamas). — Xantus, Proc Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, xi, 1859, 

 192 (Fort Tejon, Calif.).— Martens, Journ. fiir Orn., 1859, 220 (Bermuda).— 

 Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 230 (Guatemala) ; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1868, 468 (monogr.).— Willis, Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 

 284 (Nova Scotia).— Bland, Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 287 

 (Bermuda). — Salvin and Sclater. Ibis, 1860,45 (Dueiias, Guatemala, breed- 

 ing). — Reinhardt, Ibis, 1861, 12 (Christianshaab and Godthaab, Greenland, 

 1854, 3 specimens). — Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 56 (Bahamas). — 

 Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 9 (Saskatchewan) ; 1SG3, 135 (breeding, Saskatch- 

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