14 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Greater Antilles: Cuba (Cabanas; San Pablo; Trinidad; San 

 Diego de los Banos; Bueylito, Oriente). Isle of Pines (Santa Ana; 

 Pasadita; Nueva Gerona; Laguna Grande). Haiti (Gantier; Le 

 Coup; San Luis, Santo Domingo). Jamaica (Westmoreland) . Porto 

 Rico. Accidental in southern Florida (Pelican Bay, Lake Okecho- 

 bee, Oct., 1899) ? 



[Parra] jacana Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 762, part (Santo Domingo). 



Parra jacana (not of Linnaeus) Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xvi, 1817, 

 446, part (Santo Domingo). — Vigors, ZooL Journ., iii, 1827, 448 (Cuba). — 

 D'oRBiGNY, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1840, 249. — Cabanis, Journ. 

 fur Orn., 1856, 425 (Cuba).— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 

 308 (Cuba). — Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 89 (Cuba; descr. nest and 

 eggs); 1875, 388 (Cuba; habits); 1878, 162, 189 (Porto Rico); Pvopert. Fisico- 

 Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 360; AnaL Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 385 (Porto 

 Rico).— Stahl, Ornis, voL 3, 1887, 452 (Porto Rico). 



Parra gymnostoma (not of Wagler, 1831) Cory, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 

 159, pi. [20]. 



J[acana] gymnostoma Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 183, part (Cuba; Haiti). 



Jacana gymnostoma American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 

 no. 288, part. 



Jacana spinosa (not Fulica spinosa Linnaeus) Elliot, Auk, v, 1888, 297, part 

 (Haiti; Cuba). — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Suppl. 

 to Check List, 1889, 21, part; Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 288, part (Cuba; 

 Haiti); 3d ed., 1910, 133, part (Greater Antilles).— Cory, Birds West Ind., 

 1889, 252; Cat. West. Ind. Birds, 1892, 92 (Cuba; Isle of Pines; Haiti; Jamaica; 

 Porto Rico); Auk, ix, 1892, 272 (San Diego de los Baiios, Cuba).— Scott, 

 Auk, ix, 1892, 15 (Westmoreland, Jamaica). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., iv, 1892, 290 (San Pablo, s. Cuba; habits).— Cockerell, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1893, 472 (Jamaica). — Cherrie, Contr. Orn. San Dom., 1896, 25 

 (fresh colors unfeathered parts). — (?) Mearns, Auk, xix, 1902, 79 (Pelican 

 Bay, Lake Okechobee, Florida, Oct., 1899).— Wetmore, Bull. 326, U. S. 

 Dept. Agric, 1916, 38 (Porto Rico; 1 record only). 



J[acana] spinosa Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 183, part (Cuba; 

 Haiti). 



Asarcia spinosa Bangs and Zappey, Am. Nat., xxxix, 1905, 196 (Isle of Pines, 

 Cuba; habits). 



Asarcia variabilis (not Parra variabilis Linnteus) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xxiv, 1896, 86, part (Haiti). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 

 • iii, 1903, 342, part (Cuba; Haiti; Porto Rico). 



[Asarcia] variabilis Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 169, part (Greater Ar-tilles). 



Parra violacea Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, July, 1881, 130, 155 ([near Gantier], 

 Haiti; coll. C. B. Cory); Auk, v, 1888, 51 (Cuba; Haiti; descr.; synonymy). — 

 Reichenow and Schalow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1882, 114 (reprint orig. descr.). 



[Parra] violacea Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, and revised ed., 1886, 29 (Cuba; 

 Santo Domingo). 



Jacana spinosa violacea Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., x, Jan. 31, 1916, 217 (Santa 

 Ana nd Pasadita, Isle of Pines; crit.). 



