BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 35 



chusctts, and Nova Scotia); southward to Yucatan (Merida; Co- 

 zumel Island)." 



Jlscmatopus ostralegus (not of Linnaeus) Wilson, Am. Orn., viii, 1814, ]5, pi. 64, 

 fig. 2. — ViEiLLOT, Nouv. Diet, d'llist. Nat., xv, 1817, 408, part. — Bonaparte, 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1827, 300.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Water 

 . Birds, 1834, 12. 



Elxmalopus] ostralegus Bonaparte, Journ. Ae. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1825, 106; 

 Obs. NomencL Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826, [189]. 



[?] bUxmatopus pulliatus Temminck, Man. d'Orn., ed. 2, ii, 1820, 532 (South 

 Ameriea). — Maximilian, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., iv, 1833, 746. — Nuitall, 

 Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 15 (Brazil).— Gould, Zool. 

 Voy. 'Beagle,' Birds, 1841, 128 (Rio de la Plata, Argentina). — Lembeye, 

 Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 104, pi. 14. — Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. 

 Th. Bras., iii, 1856, 366.— Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 423 (Cuba).— 

 Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H.', vii, 1860, 308 (Cuba); xvii, 1875, 445 (Mas- 

 sachusetts and Maine).— Newton, Ibis, 1861, 115 (St. Thomas). — Gundlach, 

 Journ. fur Orn., 1861, 342 (Cuba); 1862, 88 (Cuba; crit.); 1874, 313 (Porto 

 Rico); 1875, 331 (Cuba); 1878, 162, 188 (Porto Rico); Report. Fisico-Nat. 

 Cuba, i, 1866, 358. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iv, no. 29 (Cursores), 1865, 

 74 (Chile; Brazil).— Sundevall, Oefv. K. Vet.-Ak. Forh., 1869, 588 (St. 

 Bartholomew). — Pel.^.eln, Orn. Bras., 1870, 298, 455 (Mattogrosso; Cujutu- 

 ba). — Cunningham, Ibis, 1870, 499 (Ancud, Straits Magellan, Nov.). — 

 Cory, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 145; Auk. iv, 1887, 230, part (West 

 Indian localities and references); Birds West Ind., 1889, 230, part; Cat. West 

 Ind. Birds, 1892, 95, part.— Berlepsch, Journ. fur Orn., 1887, 126 (Para- 

 guay). — Peters, Journ. fur Orn., 1892, 121 (Curasao). — Hartert, Ibis, 

 1893, 108(Aruba), 325 (Curagao); Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 307 (Aruba; Cura- 

 sao). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N.H., vi, 1894, 75 (Trinidad). — Aplin, 

 Ibis, 1894, 207 (Uruguay). — Koenigswald, Journ. fur Orn., 1896, 394 (Sao 

 Paulo, s. Brazil). — Holmberg, Segundo Censo Argentina, i, 1898, 565. — • 

 Ihering, Revista Mus. Paulista, iii, 1899, 426 (Iguape, Sao Paulo); vi, 



1904, 343 (Paraguay). — Thayer and Bangs, Bull. Mus.Comp. Zool., xlvi, 



1905, 146 (San Miguel Island, Bay of Panama, March). — Hartert and 

 Venturi, Novit. Zool., xvi, 1909, 250 (coast Buenos Aires). — Dabbene, 

 Orn. Argent., 1910, 215 (Patagonia; coast Buenos Aires). — Carriker, Ann. 

 Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 415 (Costa Rica).— Grant (C. H. B.), Ibis, 1911, 

 466 (Cape San Antonio, etc., Argentina, Nov. 10-Apr. 11). — Bertoni, Fauna 

 Parag., 1914, 38 (upper Rio Parana).— Wetmore, Bull. 326, U. S. Dept. 

 Agric, 1916, 38 (Culebra, Culebrita, and Desecheo islands, Porto Rico). 



Ilxmatopus pallialus Audubon, Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 181, pi. 223; v, 1839, 580; 

 Synopsis, 1839, 228; Birds Am., 8vo ed., v, 1842, 236, pi. 324.— Jardine and 

 Selby, Illustr. Om., (n. s.), 1836, pi. 7 (Florida Keys). — Bon.\parte, Geog. 

 and Comp. List, 1838, 46. — Peabody, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 358. — Giraud, 



a I am unable to determine whether West Indian and South American records are 

 really of this form, not having seen specimens. H. palliatus is, however, cited froiri 

 Cuba, Haiti, Porto Rico, St. Bartholomew, St. Thomas, Trinidad, Aruba, Curasao, 

 Brazil (Mattogrosso; Cujutuba; Iguape, Sao Paulo; Santa Catarina), Paraguay 

 (upper Rio Parana), Uruguay, Argentina (Rio de la Plata; coast of Buenos Aires; 

 Cape San Antonio), and from San Miguel Island, Bay of Panama. 



^The interrogation mark indicates doubt as to identity of birds from the localities 

 cited with those from the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, specimens 

 not having been examined by the author. 



