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Houma) ; Mississippi (Natchez) ; southern Alabama (Chuckvee 

 Bay, Baldwin County) ; Florida (throughout peninsular Florida, 

 west to Lreon County) ; Georgia (Okefenokee Swamp and probably 

 Savannah) ; and South Carolina (Yemasee, Frogmore, and probably 

 Charleston) ; south through the West Indies — Bahamas (breeding?) ; 

 Cuba and Isle of Pines (La Casalina) ; Puerto Rico (formerly com- 

 mon, now rare; Arecibo, Lugillo, Guaimini River, Anegado and 

 Cartagena Lagoons); Jamaica; Hispaniola (both Haiti and the 

 Dominican Republic); Grenada; the Grenadines; Barbados; St. 

 Vincent; St. Lucia; Dominica; Guadeloupe; to Carriacou; Tobago; 

 and Trinidad; and through Mexico and Central America (definitely 

 recorded from Mexico; Guatemala; Honduras; El Salvador; Costa 

 Rica; Panama) to South America as far south as Ecuador (La 

 Carolina; Clione; chiefly tropical zone, but also recorded from the 

 tableland) ; Peru; Brazil (whole of Brazil south to Matto Grosso — 

 Caicara, Cachoeira, Carandasinho, Urucum; and Rio Grande do 

 Sul) ; Paraguay (Sapucay) ; and nortliern half of Argentina (San 

 Vicente, Chaco; Barracas al Sud, Santiago del Estero; and Province 

 of Buenos Aires). 



Winters throughout all but the northernmost portion of the breed- 

 ing range (occurs north to Brownsville, Tex., and Tallahassee and 

 Royal Palm Hammock, Fla.). 



Casual in Bermuda; North Carolina; Virginia; Maryland; Penn- 

 sylvania; New Jersey; New York; Connecticut; Rhode Island; 

 Massachusetts; New Hampshire; Maine; New Brunswick; Nova 

 Scotia; Quebec; Missouri; Illinois; Indiana; Michigan; Wisconsin; 

 Kansas; Arizona; Colorado; and Utah. Accidental in Tristan da 

 Cunha. 



Tyfe locality. — Martinique, West Indies. 



[Fulica] mart mica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat, ed. 12, i, 1766, 259' (Martinique; "edit 

 Oryzaui, Pisa, Ponem. D. Jacquin"). 



[Oallinula] martinica Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 769. — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. 

 Nat. Hist. New York, viii, 1866, 295 (vicinity New Yorli City). 



Oallinula martinica Temminck, Cat., Syst. 1S07. 172. — Bonaparte. Contr. Ma- 

 clurian Lye., i, 1827, 27 ; Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New Yorlc, ii, 1827, 836 ; Geogr. 

 and Comp. List, 1838, 53. — NuiTAUt., Man. Orn. United States and Canada, 

 Water Birds, 1834, 221.— Audubon, Orn. Biogr., iv, 1838, 37, pi. 305 ; Synopsis, 

 1839, 210; Birds Amer., 8vo ed., v, 1842, 128, pi. 303.— Peacody, Rep. Orn. 

 Massachusetts, 1839, 375 (accidental).— Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1847, 40 (West Indies).— Hurdis, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 36 (Bermuda, 

 Apr., 1849. several). — Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 

 753.— Baied, Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1850, No. 561.— Bryant, Proc. Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, 1859, 122 (Bahamas) ; x, 1866, 257 (Puerto Rico) ; 

 Journ. ftir Orn., xiv, 1866, 191 (Puerto Rico)". — Martens, Journ. fiir Orn., vii, 

 1859, 220 (Bermuda).— Bland, Ann. Rep. Smiths. List, for 1858 (1859), 287 

 ( Bermuda ) .—Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vii, 1861, 302 

 (Panama) ; viii. 180G, 295 (vicinity of New York City),— March, Proc. Acad. 



