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(Nelson) ; Nueces County, Tex., May 22, 1884 (Benners) ; Socorro 

 Island, Mexico, fledged young May 14, 1897 (Anthony). An unusu- 

 ally early nesting was that of birds which had already laid their 

 eggs by March 23, 1907, at Charleston, S. C. (Wayne), while the eggs 

 that were found hatched March 5, 1890, at Key West, Fla., must have 

 been laid in early February. 



[Lineated Tiger-bittern. Tigrisoma lineatum (Boddaert). 



The lineated tiger-bittern ranges north to Panama, where it has been taken 

 at Lion Hill, March, 1900 (Brown), and at Rio Indio, February 23, 1911 (Gold- 

 man). Thence it spreads over much of northern South America, south to Peru 

 (Pebas and Yurimaguas) and to Barretos, Sao Paulo, Brazil.! 



[Nicaraguan Tiger-bittern. Tigrisoma excellens Ridgway. 



Restricted to Middle America, where it has been taken from the Segovia 

 River. Honduras (Townsend), to the Rio Escondido, Nicaragua (Richmond).] 



[Mexican Tiger-bittern. Heierocnus mexicanus (Swainson). 



The Mexican tiger-bittern is one of the common members of the family in 

 Mexico and Central America and ranges north almost to the United States, to 

 Alamos, Sonora ; Victoria, Tamaulipas; and Cozumel Island, Yucatan. The 

 southern limit is found in Panama, where it has been taken east to the Bay of 

 Panama (Kellett and Wood) and to the line of the Panama Railroad (McLean- 

 nan).] 



