_Fulica atra_ Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 152. (Type
locality, Europe, restricted to Sweden.)
_Fulica atra_ Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, pp. 64, 69 (Guam);
Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1, 1901, p. 32 (Guam);
Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 70 (Marianas); _idem_, The Plant World,
7, 1904, p. 268 (Guam); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia,
1922, p. 43 (Guam); Bryan, Guam Rec., vol. 13, no. 2, 1936, p. 15
(Guam).
_Fulica atra atra_ Hartert, Vögel pal. Fauna, 15, 1921, p. 1852
(Guam); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 197 (Tinian,
Guam); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 222, (Tinian,
Guam); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 302 (Micronesia).
_Geographic range._--Breeds in Europe, northern Africa, and Asia.
Winters south to Africa, Malaysia, southern Asia. In Micronesia:
Mariana Islands--Tinian, Guam.
_Remarks._--The Common Coot is a straggler to Micronesia in winter. It
has been recorded from Guam and Tinian. An unsexed specimen in the
collections of the American Museum of Natural History was taken at Guam
in the fall of 1896 by one of Owston's collectors.
=Squatarola squatarola= (Linnaeus)