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Etang Miragoane; Laguna Rincon) ; St. Croix; Dominica; Grenada; 

 St. Bartholomew ; Jamaica ; Swan Island ; St. Martin ; St. Barts ; St. 

 Kitts; Montserrat; Guadeloupe; Martinique; St. Lucia; St. Vincent; 

 the Grenadines; and Barbados; and south through Mexico (Guana- 

 juato; Chapulco, Pueblo; Orizaba, Veracruz; Cacoprieto, Oaxaca; 

 City of Mexico; Mazatlan, Sinaloa; Progresso and Cozumel Island, 

 Yucatan; La Barca, Jalisco; and throughout Lower California); 

 British Honduras (Belize); Guatemala (Duenas; Vera Paz; 

 Coban; Atitlan) ; Costa Rica (San Jose; Laguna de Cartago; San 

 Pedro ; Alajuela ; Turrucares) ; Panama (Lion Hill ; Almirante ; Vol- 

 can de Chiriqui; Changuiniola), to Venezuela (Lake of Valencia and 

 Caracas); Trinidad; Tobago; Colombia (Medellin; Antioquia; Bo- 

 gota; near Cienaga, Magdalena) ; Ecuador (Quito; Cayandeled; La 

 Carolina; Santa Lucia; Chone; Yaguarcocha) ; Peru (Sarayacu and 

 Tumbez) ; Brazil (Bonito, Pernambuco) ; and British Guiana (Bar- 

 tica). 



Occasional in winter in Montana (Corvallis) ; Minnesota (Lanes- 

 boro) ; Illinois (Rantoul) ; Pennsylvania (Kresgeville) ; New York 

 (Rochester and Flushing) ; Connecticut (Hartford) ; and Massa- 

 chusetts (Salem). 



Casual in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Massett) ; Anticosti Island 

 and St. Joachim, Quebec; Newfoundland Labrador (Sandwich Bay) ; 

 and Greenland (Sukkertoppen; Avigait; and Umanak). 



Accidental in the British Isles: England (Newbury, Berkshire); 

 Wales (Cardiff) ; Scotland (Tiree Island and Lewis Island, Outer 

 Hebrides). 



Type locality. — "In America septentrionali"= Hudson Bay. 



[Rallus-] carolinus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, i, 1758, 153 ; ed. 12, i, 1766, 263 

 (Hudson Bay; based on Little American Water Sen Edwards, Nat. Hist. 

 Birds, iii, pi. 144; Soree Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, pi. 76). — Gmeun, 

 Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 715. 



Rallus carolinus Tueton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 431. — Bonapaete, Ann. Lye. Nat. 

 Hist. New York, ii, 1827, 334. — Swainson and Richaedson, Fauna Bor.- 

 Amer., ii, 1831, 403.— Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1831, 537.— Ntjitall, Man. Orn. 

 United States and Canada, Water Birds, 1834, 209. — Audtibon, Orn. Biogr., 

 iil, 1835, 251, pi. 233 ; v, 1839, 572.— Townsend, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, viii, 1839, 157 (nw. United States). — D'Oebigny, in La Sagra's Hist 

 Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 262 (Spanish ed., p. 181 ) .— Peabodt, Rep. Orn. Massa- 

 chusetts, 1839, 374. — Hatmond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, viii, 

 1856, 296 (se. Indiana).— Wnxis, Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 

 284 (Nova Scotia). — Bryant, Journ. fur Orn., xiv, 1866, 191 (Puerto Rico) ; 

 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., x, 1866, 257 (Puerto Rico).— Sundevaix, 

 Ofv. Vet.-Akad. Forh., 1869, 587 (St. Bartholomew), 601 (Puerto Rico). 



R[a,llus'\ carolinus Bonapaete, Obs. Nom. Wilson's Amer. Orn., 1826, [192]. 



[Oallinula'] Carolina Gmeun, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 771. 



Ortygometra Carolina Bonapabte, Comp. and Geogr. List, 1838, 53. — Gossb, 

 Birds Jamaica, 1847, 371. — Woodhoxjsb, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and 



