ORDER LIMICOLuE. 133 



Haematopus frazari BREWSTER. Frazar's Oyster-catcher. [286.1.] 



H cematopus 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. 



Haematopus bachmani AUDUBON. Black Oyster-catcher. [287.] 



Hoematopus bachmanii AUDUBON, Birds Amer. (folio), IV, 1838, pi. 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. 



FAMILY JACANIDJE. JACANAS. 



GENUS JACANA BRISSON. 



Jacana BRISSON, Orn., V, 1760, 121. Type, by tautonymy, [Jacana] 

 jacana BRISSON = Parra jacana LINNAEUS. 



SUBGENUS ASARCIA SHARPE. 



Asarcia SHARPS, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIV, 1896, 86. Type, by 

 monotypy, Parra variabilis LINN^SUS = Fulica spinosa LINNAEUS. 



Jacana spindsa (Lixx.Eus). Mexican Jacana. [288.] 



Fulica spinosa LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 152. (Cartagena, 

 Colombia.) 



RANGE. Rio Grande Valley, Texas, southern Florida, and the 

 Greater Antilles to Mazatlan, Mexico, and Panama. 



