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Adult female.— Wmg 138-155.5 (147.3) ; tail 57-67 (62.G) ; exposo.d 

 culmen 51.5-58 (54.2) ; tarsus 47-51 (49.5) ; middle toe without claw 

 41-48 (44.9mm.).'« 



Range. — Resident in the salt marshes of southern California from 

 Santa Barbara south to San Diego Bay; occasional in fresh and 

 brackish sloughs a short distance inland (Santa Barbara; mouth of 

 Tia Juana River; Wilmington; False Bay; National City; Pacific 

 Beach; Newport Landing; Bolsa Chica Shooting Preserves, and 

 Sunset Beach, Orange County) ; south to northwestern Lower Cali- 

 fornia (San Quentin Bay). 



Type locality. — Newport Landing, Los Angeles County (now in 

 Orange County), Calif. 



Rallus elegans (not of Audubon) Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheelers' Surv., 

 1876, 273 (Santa Barbara, Calif.). 



Rallus elegans levipes Petees, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 159. 



Rallus obsoletus (not of Ridgway) Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 529 

 (San Quentin Bay, Lower California, breeding). — Ameeican Oknitholo- 

 GiSTs' Union, Check-list, 1886, and ed. 2, 1895, No. 210, part.— Bryant 

 (W. E.), Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 2, ii, 1889, 270 (San Quentin 

 Bay). 



Rallus levipes Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, i, 1899, 45 (Newport 

 Landing, Los Angeles County, Calif.; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs). — Grinnb3.l 

 (J.), Pacific Coast Avif., No. 3, 1902, 24 (Santa Barbara to Newport Bay) ; 

 No. 11, 1915, 46 (coast marshes, San Diego distr. to Los Angeles Co.). — 

 WiLLETT, Condor, viii, 1906, 15 (Los Angeles County, breeding), 151 (Los 

 Angeles County ; descr. nest and eggs) ; Pacific Coast Avif., No. 7, 1912, 

 32 (Bay City, Orange County, and Nigger Slough, Los Angeles County, breed- 

 ing). — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, 1908, 340; 

 Check-list, ed. 3, 1910, 102.— Cooke, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bull. 128, 1914, 

 18, fig. 7 map (range and migration routes). — Dawson, Birds California, 

 (students' ed.), iii, 1923, 1533 (genl.; California). — Hanna, Condor, xxvi, 

 1924, 147 in text (egg weights). — Gardner, Proc. U. S. Nat Mus., Ixvii, 

 art. 19, 1925, 16 in text, pi. 7 (structure of tongue). — Wyman and But?ne3j:,, 

 Field Book Birds Southwestern United States, 1925, 62 (descr.; distr.).— 

 Bancroft, Condor, xxix, 1927, 47 and 194 in text (breeds in San Quentin 

 region, Lower California ) .—Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 135, 1927, 272 ( life 

 hist; monogr.). — Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., xxxii, 1928, 86 

 (distr.; Lower California). — Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Ixx, 1930, 167 

 (type specimen in Mus. Comp. Zool., crit.). — Grinneix, Univ. California 

 Publ. Zool., xxxviii, 1932, 271 (type loc. ; crit). — Obekholser, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., Ixxxiv, 1937, 314 in text. 



Rallus obsoletus levipes van Rossem, Condor, xxxi, 1929, 214 (crit; range). — 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list North Amer. Birds, ed. 4, 

 1931, 95.— WiiXETT, Pacific Coast, Avif., No. 21, 1933, 52 (sw. Calif.; resident 

 in salt marshes Santa Barbara to San Diego; nests Mar. 19 to June 14). — 

 HuEY, Condor, xl, 1938, 106 (type specimen mentioned). 



Rallus longirosiris levipes Oberholsee, Proc. U. S. Nat Mus., Ixxxiv, 1937, 338 

 (monogr. ; crit.). 



12 specimens. 



