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Vermont south through the West Indies and Mexico to Chile and 

 Argentina, and in the Galapagos and Bermuda; winters from south- 

 ern California, Arizona, Texas, and Georgia southward; casual in 

 Colorado, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Maine. 



Subfamily FOLICIN^. CooTa. 

 Genus FULICA Linnaeus. 



Fvlica LiNN^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 152. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Ftdica atra Linn^tjs (Gray, 1840). 



[Fulica atra Linnaeus. European Coot. [220.] 



Fvlica atra Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 152. (Sweden.) 



Range. — Northern parts of the Eastern Hemisphere; accidental 

 in Greenland.] 



Fulica americSna Gmelin. Coot. [221.] 



Fulica americana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 704. (North America.) 



Range. — North America. Breeds from central British Columbia, 

 southern Mackenzie, Manitoba, Quebec, and New Brunswick south to 

 northern Lower California, Texas, Tennessee, and New Jersey, and 

 also in southern Mexico, southern West Indies, and Guatemala; win- 

 ters from southern British Columbia, Nevada, Utah, the Ohio Valley, 

 and Virginia south to Colombia; casual at Fort Yukon, Alaska, and 

 in Greenland, Labrador, and Bermuda. 



