444 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
(Great South Bay, 2 specimens, 1843), Massachusetts (Essex County), 
Maine (near Calais), New Brunswick (Maces Bay, Sept., 1880; Grand 
Menan), Wisconsin, Nebraska, etc.; ranges southward, at least during 
migration (probably breeding locally) over whole of Mexico, Central 
America, West Indies, and northern South America? as far as Ama- 
zon Valley (Mexiana Island; Paré, Santarém, Amapa, Ilha Grande, 
and Joazeiro, Brazil) and Peru (Santa Cruz, breeding; Ingapirca; 
Santa Lucia; Tumbez). 
Charadrius mexicanus MULLER, Syst. Nat. Suppl., 1776, 117 (Mexico; based on 
L’ Echasse du Mexique Brisson, Orn., v, 1760, 36). 
Himantopus mecicanus Orv, ed. Wilson’s Am. Orn., vii, 1824, 52.—Waatzr, Isis, 
1831, 520.—Bonapartn, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 64.—SatiB, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 237 (Santo Domingo).—GiepeL, Vég,, 1860, 371, 
fig. 664.—Brvant (H.), Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1867, 97 (Santo Domingo), 
—Ripeway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 606 (Soda Lake, Carson Desert, Nevada, 
breeding; near Salt Lake City, Utah, breeding); Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., iii, 
1880, 10 (crit. nomencl.), 201 (Cat. N. Am. Birds, no. 567); v, 1888, 534, 
footnote (Sierra Je Santiago, Cape San Lucas, and San Jose del Cabo, Lower Cal- 
ifornia); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 567.—Merri11, (J.C.), Proc. U.S. Nat. 
Mus.,i,1878,161(Fort Brown, Texas, resident; descr. nest and eggs).—BELDING, 
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 440 (Stockton and Sutter Co., California, breed- 
ing); vi, 1883, 352 (Lower California s. of lat. 24° 30’) —CHaMBERLAIN (M.), 
Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 105 (Maces Bay, New Brunswick, 1 spec., 
Sept., 1880).—Couzs, Check List, 2nd ed., 1882, no. 601.—Bazey (H. B.), 
Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883 42 (St. Simons Island, Georgia, breeding).— 
Barrp, Brewer, aud Ripeway, Water Birds, N. Am., i, 1884, 345.—Cory, 
Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 146; Auk, iv, 1887, 231 (West Indian 
localities and references); viii, 1891, 46 (Antigua and Anguilla, Lesser 
Antilles), 351 (Inagua, Bahamas); ix, 1892, 48 (Maragauna, Bahamas); 
Birds West Ind., 1889, 231; Cat. West Ind Birds, 1892, 92 (New Providence, 
Andros, Maragauna, and Great Inagua Islands, Bahamas; Cuba, Jamaica, 
@ This species has been recorded from the following localities south of the United 
States: Mexico: Sonora (Cachuta); Sinaloa (Mazatlan; Presidio de Mazatlan, Dec. 20); 
Jalisco (Guadalajara; Santa Ana, Dec. 3; Zapotlan); Michoacan (Lake Patzcuaro, 
Dec. 22); Tepic (Tres Marias Islands, Feb. 20); Colima (Rio de Coahuyana); Oaxaca 
(San Mateo, Aug.); Vera Cruz (Jalapa; Santa Ana, Oct.; Tuxpan; Lake Tamaqua); 
Puebla (Laguna de Chapulco; Santa Ana); Guanajuato; Tamaulipas (Matamoros, 
breeding; Tampico; Tamesi); Yucatan (Progreso, Oct.; Cozumel Island, June; Holbox 
Island); Lower California (Sierra de Santiago, Jan.; San Jose del Cabo, Feb. and Oct. 
14 and 19; Cape San Lucas, Feb.) 
Guatemala: San Jose, Jan.; Chiapam. 
Honduras: Ruatan Island. 
Nicaragua: Momotombo. 
Costa Rica: Rio Frio; Las Trojas. 
Panama: Lion Hill. 
Venezuela: Cumana, 
British Guiana. 
Cayenne. 
West Indies: Cuba, Isle of Pines, Jamaica, Haiti, Porto Rico, and St. Croix, Greater 
Antilles; Anguilla, St. Bartholomew, Antigua, St. Vincent, and Barbados, Lesser 
Antilles; Curacao and Bonaire, Dutch West Indies. 
