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Prairies of southern Florida, in Manatee, Polk, Osceola, and De 

 Soto counties (near Sarasota Bay; near Caloosahatchie River and on 

 west side of Lake Okeechobee; along Kissimmee River, from Lake 

 Kissimmee to below Fort Bassinger); also Bahama Islands (New 

 Providence; Inagua; Eleuthera; Andros; Great Exuma; Samana 

 Cay; Cay Sal). 



Speotyto cuniculana var. floridana Ridgway, American Sportsman, iv, no. 14, 

 July 4, 1S74, 216 (16 miles east of Sarasota Bay, s. w. Florida; coll. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus.). 



[Speotyto cunicularia] var. fioridanus Ridgway. American Sportsman, v, 1875, 7 

 (at sea, 200 miles off coast of Georgia; crit.). 



Speotyto cunicularia fioridana Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 

 192; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 408a.— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, 

 no. 488. — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Check List, 1886 

 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 378a; 3rd ed., 1910, 177; Auk, xiv, 1897, 134 (crit.).— 

 Scott, Auk, vi, 1889, 249 (De Soto Co., Florida); ix, 1892, 212, 216 (Caloosa- 

 hatchie district, Florida; habits).— Cory, Auk, viii, 1891, 349 (Cay Sal, New 

 Providence, Eleuthera, and Andros islands, Bahamas), 350 (Eleuthera), 352 

 (Cay Sal); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 100 (Inagua, Eleuthera, New Provi- 

 dence, Andros, Great Exuma, Samana Cay, and Cay Sal, Bahamas), 140 

 (crit.). — Rhoads, Auk, ix, 1892, 1-8 (west side of Lake Okeechobee, Florida; 

 habits).— Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 400, pi. 12, fig. 16 



(egg). 

 SYpeotyto"] c[unicularia] floridana Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 517. 

 S[peotyto] cunicularia floridana Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 265. 

 Spheotyto cunicularia var. floridana Cory, Birds Bahama Is., 1880, 126 (New 



Providence I.). 

 Speotyto floridanus Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 



special ed., 1875, iii, pi. facing p. 90. 



Footnote— Continued . 



While it is possible that a larger series of specimens from the island of New Provi- 

 dence may show that the birds from there are really separable, the indications are 

 that the type of S. cunicularia cavicola is an unusually large bird, for one of the three 

 specimens examined is even smaller in all its measurements, except length of culmen, 

 than even the average of specimens from Florida. As to supposed differences of 

 coloration, I can not detect the slightest one that is constant. 



