l66 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B 512, C 404, R 5°1> C 596.] 



IIab. 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. 



/• 7. :=^^/'/ 



287. Hsematopus bachmani Aud. 



Black Oyster-catcher. 



Hainatopiis bachmani Aud. Orn. Biog. V. 1839, 245, pi. 427. 



[B 513, C 405, R 508, C 597.] 



Hab. "*acific coast of North America, from Alaska to. Lower Cali- 

 fornia. 



Family JAOANID-^. Jacanas. 



Genus JACANA Brisson. 



Jacnna Briss. Orn. V. 1760, 121. Type, by elimination, Fulica spi- 

 u Linn. 



/'^I ^ [288.] Jacana gymnostoma (Wagl.). 



Mexican Ja^aua. 



Parra gvmnosio»ia 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. 



