BREWSTER: BIRDS OF THE CAPE REGION, LOWER CALIFORNIA. 00 



If the Black-crowned Night Heron, does not nest in Lower California, it must 

 be because the local conditions are in some way unfavorable, for its general 

 breeding range includes the whole of temperate North America and most of 

 South America, also. 



Nycticorax violaceus (Linn.). 



Yellow-crowned Night Heron. 



Nyctherodlus violaceus Belding, Proc. U. S.Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 544 (Cape Region), 



548 (San Jose). 

 Nycticorax violaceus Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II 1889, 270 (Cape 



Region). 



Mr. Belding found the Yellow-crowned Night Heron " very common " on 

 May 17, 1882, at San J(jse del Cabo, where, accortling to Mr. Frazar, it also 

 occurs numerously in autumn, "arriving early in September." The latter 

 observer also met with it in considerable numbers at La Paz in winter. About 

 Magdalena Bay " many night herons were nesting in April, 1888, in a man- 

 grove thicket bordering the long estero ; they all appeared to be of this species. 

 When alarmed by the passing of the sail-boat, they left the bushes and collected 

 along the water's edge, where I counted eighty" (Bryant). 



On the Pacific coast the Yellow-crowned Night Heron is not known to go 

 as far u'-'rthward as California. It ranges southward to Central America and 

 northern South America. 



Rallus beldingi Ridgw, 

 Belding's Rail. 



Rallus beldingi Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1882, 345, 346 (orig. descr. = 

 type from Espiritii Santo Islands) ; VI. 1883, 158, footnote (crit. ; S. Lower 

 Calif.). Belding, Ibid., V. 1883, 545 (Espiritu Santo Islands). Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds N. Amer., I. 1884, 356, 357 (descr. ; 

 crit.; Espiritu Santo Island; La Paz). A. O. U., Check List, 1886, 140, 

 no. 209. Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1880, 270 (Espiritu 

 Santo Island ; La Paz). Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIII. 1894, 10 

 (descr.; La Paz; Espiritu Santo Island, etc.; subsp. of Rallus elegans). 

 CouES, Key N. Amer. Birds, 4th ed., 1894, 888 (descr. ; Espiritu Saato 

 Island). 



[Rallus] beldingi Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIII. 1894, 7 (key to species); 

 Hand list, I. 1899, 93. 



R.[allus\ beldingi Ridgway, Man. N. Amer. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 138 (descr ; La 

 Paz; Espiritu Santo Island, etc.). 



The type specimen of this Rail was taken by Mr. Belding on Espiritu Santo 

 Island, but Mr. Frazar found the bird only about the shores of the Bay near 

 La Paz, where it inhabits mangrove thickets bordering mud flats or intersected 



