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Casual in Arizona (Tucson), Oregon (Malheur Lake), and Utah 

 (Parley's Park). 



Winters chiefly in the northern part of its main breeding area (San 

 Francisco Bay area, Farallon Islands, south to San Diego). Casual 

 in Washington (Tacoma). 



Type locality. — Farallon Islands, coast of California. 



Porzana jamaicensis, var. coturniculus "Baird" Ridgvvay, Amer. Nat., viii, 1874, 

 111 (Farallon Islands, Calif.; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Gbinneli., Univ. 

 California Publ. Zool., xxxviii, 1932, 271 (type loc. ; crit.).— ? Henshaw, 

 Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, xi, 1874, 11 (Parley's Park, Utah). 



Porzana jamaicensis . . . var. coturniculus Coues, Check-list, 1874, App., p. 137 

 (no. 470o). 



IPorza^ra janiaicensis^ b. coturniculus Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 540. — 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds North Amer., 1, 1884, 378. 



[Porzana jamaicensis'] 6. coturniculus Baird, Brewek, and Ridgway, Water 

 Birds North Amer., i, 1884, 367. 



Porzana jamaicensis coturniculus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880. 

 202, 222 (Cat. Birds North Amer., No. 576rt) ; xiii, 1890, 309 [-311] (crit.) ; 

 Nom. North Amer. Birds, 1881, No. 576a.— Coues, Check-list, ed. 2, 1882, 

 No. 682. — Ame3{ican Okixithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, No. 216a. — 

 Bryant (W. E.), Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 2, i, 1888, 42 (crit.). 



Piorzana] jamaicensis coturniculus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds 

 North Amer., i, 1884, 378, under fig. — Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 

 1887, 140.— Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. CUib, xlviii, 1928, 124 (specimen). 



Plorzana] j[amaicensis] coturniculus Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 

 1884, 674. 



Porzana coturniculus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 311, in text 

 (crit.). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 2, 1895, no. 216. 



Piorzana] coturniculus Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1896, 140. 



Crcciscus coturniculus Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 137, footnote. — 

 Amei!ICAn Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, 1908, 365 ; Check- 

 list, ed. 3, 1910, 104.— Willbtt, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 7, 1912, 33 (Hueneme, 

 'Ventura County, Calif., Mar. ; Ballona, Los Angeles County, May 16 ; River- 

 side, Aug. 13; breeding in marshes of San Diego Bay). — Cooke, U. S. 

 Dept. Agr. Bull. 128, 1914, 35, fig. 15 (geog. range).— Grin nell (J.), 

 Pacific Coast Avif., No. 11, 1915, 47 (numerous fall and winter records). — 

 Wall, Condor, xx?, 1919, 238 (San Bernardino, Calif., Aug. 3).— Wyman 

 and BuENEix, Field Book Birds Southwestern United States, 1925, 64 

 (descr.). — Huey, Auk, xliii, 1926, 351 (San Ramon, nw. Lower California.) 



[Oreciscus] coturniculus Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 105. 



Creciscus jamaicensis coturniculus Oberholseb, Auk, xxxv, 1918, 63, in text 

 (crit.); xxxvi, 1919, 268.— Huey, Condor, xxx, 1928, 158 in text (Sangre 

 de Cristo, northern Lower California). — Ewan, Condor, xxx, 1928, 247 

 (Playa del Rey, Los Angeles County, Calif.). — Kibbe, Condor, xxxi, 1929. 

 252 (Marin County, Calif ).— Gander, Condor, xxxii, 1930, 211 (near San 

 Diego, Calif.).— Dawson, Birds California (students' ed.) iii, 1923, 1549 

 (genl. ; Calif oruia).—GRiNNELL, Univ. California Publ. Zool., xxxii, 1928, 

 87 (distr. in Lower California). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check- 

 list North Amer. Birds, ed. 4, 1931. 98.- Willett, Pacific Coast Avif. No. 

 21, 1933, 53 (sw. Calif.; rare resident in salt marshes). — Hanna, Condor, 

 xxxvii, 1935, 81 (nesting; interior of San Bernardino and Riverside Coun- 

 ties, Calif.). 



