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Houma) ; Mississippi (Natchez) ; southern Alabama (Chuckvee 

 Bay, Baldwin County); Florida (throughout peninsular Florida, 

 west to Leon County) ; Georgia (Okefenokee Swamp and probably 

 Savannah) ; and South Carolina (Yemasee, Frogmore, and probably 

 Charleston) ; south through the West Indies— Bahamas (breeding?) ; 

 Cuba and Isle of Pines (La Casalina) ; Puerto Eico (formerly com- 

 mon, now rare; Arecibo, Lugillo, Guaimini Eiver, Anegado and 

 Cartagena Lagoons); Jamaica; Hispaniola (both Haiti and the 

 Dominican Republic); Grenada; the Grenadines; Barbados; St. 

 Vincent; St. Lucia; Dominica; Guadeloupe; to Carriacou; Tobago; 

 and Trinidad; and through Mexico and Central America (definitely 

 recorded from Mexico; Guatemala; Honduras; El Salvador; Costa 

 Rica; Panama) to South America as far south as Ecuador (La 

 Carolina; Chone; chiefly tropical zone, but also recorded from the 

 tableland) ; Peru; Brazil (whole of Brazil south to Matto Grosso — 

 Caicara, Cachoeira, Carandasinho, Urucum; and Rio Grande do 

 Sul) ; Paraguay (Sapucay) ; and northern half of Argentina (San 

 Vicente, Chaco; Ban-acas al Sud, Santiago del Estero; and Province 

 of Buenos Aires). 



Winters throughout all but the northernmost portion of the breed- 

 ing range (occurs north to Brownsville, Tex., and Tallahassee and 

 Royal Palm Hammock, Fla.). 



Casual in Bermuda; North Carolina; Virginia; Maryland; Penn- 

 sylvania; New Jersey; New York; Connecticut; Rhode Island; 

 Massachusetts; New Hampshire; Maine; New Brunswick; Nova 

 Scotia; Quebec; Missouri; Illinois; Indiana; Michigan; Wisconsin; 

 Kansas; Arizona; Colorado; and Utah. Accidental in Tristan da 

 Cunha. 



Type locality. — Martinique, West Indies. 



[FuUca] martinica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 259 (Martinique; "edit 

 Oryzam, Pisa, Ponem. D. Jacquin"). 



lOaUinula] martinica Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 769. — Laweence, Ann. Lye. 

 Nat. Hist. New York, viii, 1866, 295 (vicinity New Tork City). 



Gallinula martinica Temminck, Cat., Syst. 1807, 172. — Bonapabte, Contr. Ma- 

 clurian Lye, 1, 1827, 27; Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, ii, 1827, 336; Geogr. 

 and Comp. List, 1838, 53. — Nuitall, Man. Orn. United States and Canada, 

 Water Birds, 1834, 221.— Audubon, Orn. Biogr., iv, 1838, 37, pi. 305 ; Synopsis, 

 1839, 210; Birds Amer., 8vo ed., v, 1842, 128, pi. 303.— Peabodt, Rep. Orn. 

 Massachusetts, 1839, 375 (accidental). — Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1847, 40 (West Indies).— Hubdis, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 36 (Bermuda, 

 Apr., 1849, several). — Cassin, in Baird, Kep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 

 753. — Baibd, Oat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 561. — Betant, Proc. Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist, vii, 1859, 122 (Bahamas) ; x, 1866, 257 (Puerto Rico) ; 

 Journ. fflr Orn., xiv, 1866, 191 (Puerto Rico)". — Maktens, Journ. fiir Orn., vii, 

 1859, 220 (Bermuda). — Bland, Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 287 

 (Bermuda). — Lawbench, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vii, 1861, 302 

 (Panama) ; viii, 1866, 295 (vicinity of New York City), — March, Proc. Acad. 



