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[CARIBBEAN COOT. Fulica caribaea Ridgway. 



The Caribbean coot is recorded from the Lesser Antilles on the islands of Anguilla, 

 Guadeloupe, and St. John.] 



[AMERICAN FINFOOT. Heliornis fulica (Boddaert). 



The American flnfoot ranges from Matto Grasso, Brazil, and Pebas, Peru, north 

 through Guiana, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, and Central America to the Belize 

 River, British Honduras, the Coatzacoalcos River, and Buena Vista, Vera Cruz.] 



[GUATEMALAN SUN BITTERN. Eurypyga major Hartlaub. 



Ranging into northern South America, in Colombia and Ecuador, the Guatemalan 

 sun bittern is rare in Central America, where it has been recorded from Panama, 

 Costa Rica (both coasts), and from the mountains southeast of Coban, Guatemala.] 



