BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 221 



1863, 59 (Mexico).— (?) D'Okbigny, m La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 

 271 (Spanisli ed., p. 186). 



Fulica wilsoni Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xii, pt. 1, 1824, 236 (Delaware River, 

 Pa.; cites Fulica americana Sabine, Franklin's Journ., 1823, App., 670; 

 Common Coot Wilson, Amer. Orn., ix, 1814, i, pi. Ixxiii, fig. 1). 



(?) Fulica leucopyga Wagler, Isis, 1831, 518 (locality not mentioned, but sup- 

 posed new species described in a paper on Mexican mammals and birds). 



Fulica caribcea (not of Ridgway) Babboub, Mem. Nutt, Orn. Club, vi, 1923, 87 in 

 text (Cuba; resident). 



Fulica caribaea Danforth, Wils. Bull., xl, 1928, 179 (Laguna del Sitio, Cuba; 

 nesting). 



Colymbus pawns Shufeldt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxxii, 1913, 186, pi. 39, 

 figs. 474-^76 incl., part (Pleistocene: Fossil Lake, Oregon; humeri, meta- 

 tarsus; fide Wetmore, Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, xxiii, 1937, 199). 



FULICA AMERICANA GRENADENSIS Riley 



Grenada Coot 



Adult (sexes alike) . — Similar to summer adults of the nominate race, 

 but with the bill heavier and more wrinkled longitudinally, the frontal 

 shield more swollen. (Doubtfully distinct from F. a. americana.) 



Other plumages not recorded. 



Adult male. — ^Wing 185; tail 46; culmen with frontal shield, 48; 

 depth of bill at base 18 mm.^" 



Adult female. — ^Wing 184, 184.5; tail 47, 47.5; culmen with frontal 

 shield 46, 50.5 ; depth of bill at base 16, 17.5 ; tarsus 56 ; middle toe with- 

 out claw 72 mm.^^ 



Range. — Resident in Grenada; the Grenadines, Jamaica (Long 

 Pond, near Hodges, Pedro Ponds) ; and St. Croix (South Gate Pond). 



Ty'pe locality. — Isle cle Rhonde, Grenada, British West Indies. 



Fulica americana (not of Gmeliu) Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 384. — Sclatee, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, 1861, 81 (Jamaica). — Albrecht, Journ. fiir. Orn., 

 1862, 206 (Jamaica).— March, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, 1864, 64 

 (Jamaica). — Welxs, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1887, 629 (Grenada, resident, 

 breeding). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 221 (Jamaica and 

 Grenada). — Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 12 (Jamaica; resident, breeding). — Field, 

 Auk, xi, 1894, 122 (Jamaica; breeding). — Sclateb, Rev. List Birds Jamaica, 

 1910, 20. 

 Fulica americana grenadensis Riley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xxix, 1916, 

 103 ( Isle de Rhonde, Grenada ; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ) . — Danforth, Auk, xlv, 

 1928, 482 (summer; Long Pond, near Hodges, Pedro Ponds, Jamaica). — • 

 Beatty, Journ. Dept. Agr. Puerto Rico, xiv, 1930, 140 ( St. Croix ; South Gate 

 Pond, Virgin Islands; breeds). — Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934. 

 212. 



F[ulica] a[mericana] grenadensis Danforth, Journ. Agr. Univ. Puerto Rico, 

 xix, 1935, 448 in text (Jamaica). 



Fulica caribaea (not of Ridgway) Bangs and Kennard, List Birds Jamaica, 1920, 

 6 (resident; less abundant than formerly). 



"^Ex Danforth, Auk, xlv, 1928, 482 (1 specimen from Jamaica). 

 "^ Two specimens, including the type, ex Danforth, Auk, xlv, 1928, 482, and Riley, 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xxix, 1916, 103. 



