BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 469 



Coasts of tropical and warm-temperate America and west coast of 

 Africa; breeding northward to coast of Virginia (Cobbs Island) and 

 along Gulf coast of United States, from Florida to Texas (Padre 

 Island; Galveston Bay); no certain record of breeding on Pacific 

 coast; « casual northward (as straggler) to Pennsylvania (Chester 

 County), coast of New Jersey, Massachusetts (Nantucket Island, 

 July 1, 1874), Michigan (Mackinac Island)^ and Wisconsin;^ on 

 Pacific side northward to Tomales Bay, California (said to have 

 formerly bred on San Miguel Island), and southward to Peru (Payta, 

 Jan.; Tumbez; Santa Lucia); on Atlantic side occurs throughout 

 West Indies, on Trinidad and islands of Cura(?ao, Aruba, and Bonaire, 

 and along coast of South America as far as southern Brazil (Rio de 

 Janeiro, July; Santa Catarina, Aug.; Rio Parahyba; Sao Paulo; 

 Iguape, Sao Paulo; Sapituba) and Argentina (estuary of Rio de la 

 Plata; Tuyu, March); also occurs in winter along Atlantic coast of 

 Africa, from Morocco (Tangier) to Angola. 



Sta-na maxima Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 58, no. 988 (Cayenne; based on 

 Exrondelle de Mer, de Cayenne Daubenton, PI. Enl., ix, pi. 988).— Sclater 

 and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 567 (monogr.).— Lawrence, 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 318 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa); Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., i, 1878, 198 (St. Vincent); i, 1879, 242 (Barbuda), 277 (Grenada, breed- 

 ing), 462 (Guadeloupe), 488 (Antigua).— Saunders, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1876, 655 (monogr.); 1882, 521 (Payta, Peru, Jan.; crit.); Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., XXV, 1896, 80 (Cape Roni, Gambia, Accra, and Cape Coast Castle, w. 

 Africa; Rancho Nuevo, Vera Cruz, Jan.; Rio Lagarto, Yucatan, June; Cozu- 

 mel Island, Feb.; Belize and Glovers Reef, Brit. Honduras, May; Honduras; 

 Anegada, Dec; Grenada, Sept.; Surinam; Brazil, April; Rio de Janeiro, 

 July; Santa Catarina, Aug.; Mazatlan, Aug.; Manzanillo, Colima, June; 

 Chiapam, Guatemala, Jan.; Payta, Peru, Jan.; Jamaica; etc.).— Reichenow, 

 Journ. fur Orn., 1877, 10 (Loango coast, w. Africa).— Taczanowski, Proc! 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 749 (Tumbez, Peru).— Merrill (J. C), Proc U S. 

 Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 172 (Padre Island, Texas, breeding). -Bocage, Orn. 

 Angola, 1881, 509.— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 624.— Coues, Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 794.— Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 462 

 (Yucatan).— Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds N. Am., ii, 1884, 

 284.— RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vii, 1884, 173 (Trinidad); vii,' 1885,' 

 173 (St. Thomas).— Cory, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 178; Auk, v, 



1888, 76 (West Indian references); vii, 1890, 374 (Anegada); Birds West Ind.] 



1889, 277; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 82, 135 (Great Bahama, Biminis, Beriy 

 Islands, Eleuthera, New Providence, Andros, Cat Island, and Inagua, 

 Bahamas; Cuba; Isle of Pines; Jamaica; Haiti; Porto Rico; Anegada; St! 

 Croix; Sombrero; Barbados; Antigua; Guadeloupe; St. Vincent; Grenada).— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, and 2d ed., 1895, 

 no. 65; 3rd ed., 1910, p. 43.— Evermann, Auk, iii, 1886, 89 (Ventura Co., 



California, reside nt).— Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 



a Recorded by H. H. BaUey (Auk, xxiii, 1906, 277) as breeding on Isabella Island, 

 Tepic; but as no specimens were obtained it seems probable that T. elegans, which is 

 known to occur on that island, was mistaken for T. maximus. 



b These records perhaps erroneous identification of Hydroprogne caspia. 



