1 66 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B 5 i2, 404, R 507, C 596.] 



HAB. Sea-coasts of temperate and tropical America, from New 

 Jersey and Lower California to Patagonia ; occasional or accidental 

 on the Atlantic coast north to Massachusetts and Grand Menan. 



287. Haematopus bachmani AUD. 



Black Oyster-catcher. 



Hcematopus bachmani AUD. Orn. Biog. V. 1839, 2 45> pi- 4 2 7- 

 [B 5 13, 405, R 508, 597.] 



HAB. Pacific coast of North America, from Alaska to Lower Cali- 

 fornia. 



FAMILY JACANLLX53, JACANAS. 



GENUS JACANA BRISSON. 



Jacana BRISS. Orn. V. 1760, 121. Type, by elimination, Fulica spi- 

 nosa LINN. 



[288.] Jacana gymnostoma (WAGL.). 



Mexican Jacana. 



Parra gymnostoma WAGLER, Isis, 1831, 517. 



Jacana gymnostoma ZELEDON, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 1885, 114. 



[B , C R 568, C 672.] 



HAB. Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, south to Central America ; 

 Cuba. 



