14 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIUNAL muUsnUse. 
Greater Antilles: Cuba (Cabafias; San Pablo 3 Trinidad; San 
Diego de los Bafios; Bueylito, Oriente). Isle of Pines (Santa Ana; 
Pasadita; Nueva Gerona; Laguna Grande). Haiti (Gantier; Le 
Coup; San Luis, Santo Domingo). Jamaica (Westmoreland). Porto 
Rico. Accidental in southern Florida (Pelican Bay, Lake Okecho- 
bee, Oct., 1899) ? 
[Parra] jacana Laraam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 762, part (Santo Domingo). — 
Parra jacana (not of Linneus) Vizm.ot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xvi, 1817, 
446, part (Santo Domingo).—Vicors, Zool. Journ., iii, 1827, 448 (Cuba).— 
D’orpieny, in La Sagra’s Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1840, 249.—CaBanis, Journ. 
fiir Orn., 1856, 425 (Cuba).—Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 
308 (Cuba).—Gunpiacu, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 89 (Cuba; descr. nest and 
eggs); 1875, 388 (Cuba; habits); 1878, 162, 189 (Porto Rico); Repert. Fisico- 
Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 360; Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 385 (Porto 
Rico).—Srant, Ornis, vol. 3, 1887, 452 (Porto Rico). 
Parra gymnostoma (not of Wagler, 1831) Cory, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 
159, pl. [20]. 
J{acana] gymnostoma Ripeway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 183, part (Cuba; Haiti). 
Jacana gymnostoma AMERICAN OrRwniTHoLoGisTS’ Union, Check List, 1886, 
no. 288, part. 
Jacana spinosa (not Fulica spinosa Linnzus) Extiot, Auk, v, 1888, 297, part 
° (Haiti; Cuba).—American OrwnirHotogists’ Union Commitrer, Suppl. 
to Check List, 1889, 21, part; Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 288, part (Cuba; 
Haiti); 3d ed., 1910, 133, part (Greater Antilles)—Cory, Birds West Ind., 
1889, 252; Cat. West. Ind. Birds, 1892, 92 (Cuba; Isle of Pines; Haiti; Jamaica; 
Porto Rico); Auk, ix, 1892, 272 (San Diego de los Bafios, Cuba).—Scort, 
Auk, ix, 1892, 15 (Westmoreland, Jamaica).—CHapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 
Hist., iv, 1892, 290 (San Pablo, s. Cuba; habits).—CocKERELL, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. Lond., 1893, 472 (Jamaica).—CuErRRig£, Contr. Orn. San Dom., 1896, 25 
(fresh colors unfeathered parts).—(?) Mearns, Auk, xix, 1902, 79 (Pelican 
Bay, Lake Okechobee, Florida, Oct., 1899).—Werrmore, Bull. 326, U.S. 
Dept. Agric., 1916, 38 (Porto Rico; 1 record only). 
J{acana] spinosa Ripaway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 183, part (Cuba; 
Haiti). 
Asarcia spinosa Banes and Zarpry, Am. Nat., xxxix, 1905, 196 (Isle of Pines, 
Cuba; habits). 
Asarcia variabilis (not Parra variabilis Linneus) SHarre, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
xxiv, 1896, 86, part (Haiti).—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 
iii, 1908, 342, part (Cuba; Haiti; Porto Rico). 
[Asarcia] variabilis Sarre, Hand-list, i, 1899, 169, part (Greater Artilles). 
Parra violacea Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, July, 1881, 180, 155 ([near Gantier], 
Haiti; coll. C. B. Cory); Auk, v, 1888,.51 (Cuba; Haiti; descr.; synonymy).— 
RetcueNnow and Scuatow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1882, 114 (reprint orig. descr.). 
[Parra] violacea Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, and revised ed., 1886, 29 (Cuba; 
Santo Domingo). 
Jacana spinosa violacea Topp, Ann. Carnegie Mus., x, Jan. 31, 1916, 217 (Santa 
Ana ‘nd Pasadita, Isle of Pines; crit.). 
