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Hematopus frazari BREwsTER. Frazar’s Oyster-catcher. [286.1.] 
Hematopus frazari Brewster, Auk, V, Jan., 1888, 84. (Carmen Island, 
Gulf of California.) 
RanGE.— Both coasts of Lower California, rarely north to Ventura 
County, California; casual on the coast of northwestern Mexico. 
Hematopus bichmani AupuBOoN. Black Oyster-catcher. ([287.] 
Hematopus bachmanit AupuBoN, Birds Amer. (folio), IV, 1838, pl. 427, 
fig. 1. (Mouth of Columbia River.) 
RanGE.— Pacific coast of North America. Breeds from Prince 
William Sound, Alaska, west throughout Aleutian Islands and south 
to central Lower California; winters from southern British Columbia 
to Lower California. 
Famity JACANIDZ. JacaNnas. 
Genus JACANA Brisson. 
Jacana Brisson, Orn., V, 1760, 121. Type, by tautonymy, [Jacana] 
jacana Brisson = Parra jacana LINN&SUS. 
Suscpenus ASARCIA SHARPE. 
Asarcia SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIV, 1896, 86. Type, by 
monotypy, Parra variabilis Linnzus = Fulica spinosa LINNXUS. 
Jacina spindsa (LINN=uS). Mexican Jacana. [288.] 
Fulica spinosa Linnavs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 152. (Cartagena, 
Colombia.) 
RaneGE.— Rio Grande Valley, Texas, southern Florida, and the 
Greater Antilles to Mazatlan, Mexico, and Panama. 
