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Voice. — Mr. Jouy says that "these birds have a noisy, cackling 

 voice when they take flight." Mr. Gillin refers to their note as " a 

 plaintive call of alarm." 



Fall. — In September he found them " in flocks, flying around and 

 feeding on ponds where " he " was sure that they had not bred." The 

 records of this form in Texas and the West Indian form in Florida 

 were probably due to such post-breeding wanderings. 



DISTEIBUTION 



Range. — The Mexican jacana is found in Mexico and the lower Eio 

 Grande valley in Texas. The range extends north to Sinaloa (Mazat- 

 ian) ; and southern Texas (Brownsville). East to Texas (Browns- 

 ville) ; Tamaulipas (Alta Mira, and Tampico) ; Vera Cruz (Jaiapa, 

 Alvarado, Tlacotalpan, and Cosamaloapam) ; Tabasco (Barra de 

 Santa Ana, San Juan Bautista, and Teapa) ; and Quintana Eoo 

 (Cozumel Island). South to Quintana Roo (Cozumel Island); 

 Chiapas (Tonala) ; Oaxaca (Zanatepec and Santa Efigenia) ; and 

 Guerrero (Acapulco). West to Guerrero (Acapulco) ; Michoacan 

 (Lake Patzcuaro) ; Colima (Rio Coahuayana, and Manzanillo) ; 

 Jalisco (Zapotlan, Ocotlan, and Guadalajara) ; Nayarit (Tepic, San 

 Bias, and Santiago) ; and Sinaloa (Mazatlan). 



In October, 1899, a specimen of jacana was killed on Pelican Bay, 

 Lake Okeechobee, Fla. (Mearns, 1902) ; and H. H. Bailey (1925) 

 reports another seen by his father in Osceola County, Fla., in 

 March, 1911. The first of these has been tentatively referred by 

 Ridgway (1919) to Jacana s. violacea, a race found in Cuba, Haiti, 

 Jamaica, and Porto Rico. 



Egg dates. — Northeastern Mexico : 68 records, April 25 to August 

 15 ; 34 records, May 28 to July 13. 

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