106 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Vermont south through the West Indies and Mexico to Chile and 
Argentina, and in the Galapagos and Bermuda; winters from south- 
ern California, Arizona, Texas, and Georgia southward; casual in 
Colorado, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Maine. 
SuBFaMILy FULICINAS. Coors. 
GENUS FULICA LINN 2Uvs. 
Fulica Linnxvus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 152. Type, by subs. desig., 
Fulica atra Linnamus (Gray, 1840). 
[Filica dtra Linnmus. European Coot. [220.] 
Fulica atra LInNxws, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 152. (Sweden.) 
RancE.— Northern parts of the Eastern Hemisphere; accidental 
in Greenland.] 
Fulica americiéna GMELIN. Coot. ([221.] 
Fulica americana GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 704. (North America.) 
Rance.— North America. Breeds from central British Columbia, 
southern Mackenzie, Manitoba, Quebec, and New Brunswick south to 
northern Lower California, Texas, Tennessee, and New Jersey, and 
also in southern Mexico, southern West Indies, and Guatemala; win- 
ters from southern British Columbia, Nevada, Utah, the Ohio Valley, 
and Virginia south to Colombia; casual at Fort Yukon, Alaska, and 
in Greenland, Labrador, and Bermuda. 
