BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 27 



AcLvlt female.-Wmg 425-475 (440.8) ; tail 162-171 (167.2) ; ex- 

 posed culmen 100-124 (110.2) ; tarsus 187-214 (196.8 mm.) " 



Bange.— Resident in Cuba (western Pinar del Kio— chiefly in and 

 savanna country— Vinales, Mendoza; Guane; Matanzos Province— 

 Alacranes; Union de Reyes; Aguada de Pasajeros; Puerto Principe) ; 

 and the Isle of Pines (Pasadeta; La Vega; Los Indios). 



Type locality.— L& Vega, Isle of Pines. 

 Orus canadensis (not Ardea canadensis Linnaeus) Hartlaue, Naumannia, il, 



1852, 54 (Cuba).— Cabanis, Journ. fur Orn., 1856, 339 (Cuba; habits).— 



Theinemann, Journ. fur Orn., 1857, 154 (Cuba; descr. eggs).— Breweb, 



Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, 1860, 308 (Cuba).— Gundlach, Journ. 



fiir Orn., 1862, 81 (Cuba; crit.) ; 1875, 293 (Cuba; habits); Contr. Cm. 



Cubana, 1876, 143. 

 [Orus] canadensis Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 1861, 338 (Cuba) ; Rep. Fisico- 



Nat. Cuba, i, 1865-66, 347. 

 Oru^ poliophaea (not of Wagler) Lembeye, Aves Isla de Cuba, 1850, 80.— 



Beewee, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, 1860, 808 (Cuba). 

 lOrus] mexicana (not Ardea (Cirus) mexicmm Miiller) Cory, List Birds West 



Indies, 1885, and rev. ed. 1886, 29 (Cuba). 

 Grus mexicana Coey, Auk, v, 1888, 50 (Cuba ; references) ; Birds West Indies, 



1889, 251 (Cuba) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, 90 (Cuba; Isle of Pines). 

 G-rus nesiotes Bakqs and Zappey, Amer. Nat., xxxix, Apr. 1905, 190 (La Vega, 



Isle of Pines, Cuba; coll. B. and O. Bangs) .—Bangs. Bull. Mus. Comp. 



Zool., Ixx, 1930, 178 (type spec, in Mus. Comp. Zool.). 

 Grus mexicana nesiotes Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., x, 1916, 20.5 (Los Indios, 



Isle of Pines; measurements; habits; food). 

 Grus mexicanus nesiotes Babbotte, Mem. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1923, 58 (Province 



Pinar del Rio, Cuba; Isle of Pines; crit.). — Danfoeth, Journ. Agr. Univ. 



Puerto Rico, six, 1935, 425 (seen near Clego de Avila, Cuba). 

 Orus canadensis nesiotes Petees, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 152. 

 ©[»•««] clanadensis'i nesiotes Bomd, Birds West Indies, 1936, 83 in text (descr. ; 



Cuba, especially western part, iand Isle of Pines) . 

 Megalomis canadensis nesiotes Obeeholsee, Auk, xxxviii, Jan. 1921, 82. — Habteet, 



Vog. pal. Fauna, iii, 1921, 1818 (crit.). 

 Megalomis nesiotes Petees, Auk, xlii, 1925, 120, in text. 

 Megalomis mexicanus Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 135, 1927, 241, part (Cuba; 



life hist.). 



Family ARAMIDAE : Courlans, or Limpkins 



=Aramidae Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., ii, 1857 [1854], 108. — Baird, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 651, 657. — FtiKBRiNOEE, Unters. Murph. Syst. Vog., 

 ii, 1888, 1207.— Wetmoee and Miuas, Auk, xliii, 1926, 342.— Wetmobe, 

 Proc. U. S. N^at. Mus., Ixxvi, art. 24, 1930, 4: Smiths. Misc. Coll., Ixxxix, 

 No. 13, 1934, 6; xcix, No. 7, 1940, 6.— Petees, Check-list Birds of World, 

 ii, 1934, 155. 



=Aramidse Sclatee and Salvin, Nora. Av. Neotr., 1873, viii, 141. — Baied, 

 Beewee, and Ridgway, Water Birds North Amer., i, 1884, 350, 398. — Coues, 



" Four specimens, from Cuba and Isle of Pines ; measurements ex Todd. Ann. 

 Carnegie Mus., x, 191G. 206. 



