1915 BIRDS OF CALIFORNIA 47 
128 (214) Porzana carolina (Linnaeus) 
Sora Ratu 
Synonyms—Common Rail; Sora, part. 
Status—Common in summer in appropriate localities throughout the state; 
recorded as breeding as far south as Escondido, San Diego County (Sharp, Con- 
dor, 1x, 1907, p. 86). Fairly common in winter in interior valleys west of the 
Sierras, occurring at that season north as far as Mad River, Humboldt County 
(Townsend, Proce. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, p. 197). Casual on the Farallon 
Tslands (Keeler, Zoe, 11, 1892, p. 164). 
129 (215) Coturnicops noveboracensis (Gmelin) 
YELLOW Rain 
Synonym—Ortygops noveboracensis. 
Status—Rather rare winter visitant to the marshes of west-central Califor- 
nia: Martinez, Contra Costa County (J. G. Cooper, Proe. Calif. Acad. Sci., rv, 
1868, p. 8); Alvarado, Alameda County (W. E. Bryant, Forest & Stream, xxv1, 
1886, p. 426) ; Alameda County (H. B. Kaeding, Osprey, 1, 1898, p. 70) ; Sono- 
ma County (Carriger, Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, 1, 1899, p. 72); Rineon Valley, 
Sonoma County (Mus. Vert. Zool.) ; Suisun Marshes, Solano County (Mus. Vert. 
Zool.) ; Los Banos, Merced County (Mus. Vert. Zool.) ; Marin County (J. Mail- 
hard, Condor, m, 1901, p. 16) ; San Mateo County and Berryessa, Santa Clara 
County (Cooke, U. S. Dept. Agric., Bull. 128, 1914, p. 32). Also Humboldt Bay 
(Townsend, Auk, m1, 1886, p. 491), Newport Bay, Orange County (Osburn, Con- 
dor, xm, 1911, p. 108), and Corona, Riverside County (Pierce, Condor, xv1, 1914, 
p. 182). 
130 (216.1) Creciscus coturniculus (Ridgway) 
CALIFORNIA Buack Ram 
Synonyms—Porzana jamaicensis; Creciscus jamaicensis ; Porzana jamaicen- 
sis coturniculus; Porzana coturniculus; Farallon Rail. 
Status—Fairly common fall and winter visitant to salt marshes of the San 
Francisco Bay region: shores of San Mateo and Alameda counties (many speci- 
mens), and Point Reyes Station, head of Tomales Bay (many records) ; also 
interiorly: Martinez, Contra Costa County (J. G. Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. 
Sci., rv, 1868, p. 8), Suisun marshes, Solano County (Mus. Vert. Zool.), and 
Stockton (Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1, 1879, p. 443) ; and southerly: Santa 
Cruz (Emerson, Condor, v1, 1904, p. 38), Hueneme, Ventura County (Willett, 
Pac. Coast Avif. no. 7, 1912, p. 33), Orange, Orange County, and Ballona, Los 
Angeles County (J. Grinnell, Bds. Los Angeles Co., 1898, p. 15), Riverside (i. 
H. Miller, Orn. & Ool., xv, 1893, p. 104), and San Diego (Belding, MS). Cas- 
ual on the Farallones (see Brewster, Auk, xxiv, 1907, p. 205). There is in Mus. 
Vert. Zool. a second Farallon specimen (no. 17199) taken in December, 1909. 
Fairly common in summer, and breeding, on the salt marshes of San Diego Bay 
‘F. Stephens, Condor, x1, 1909, p. 47; Ingersoll, Condor, x1, 1909, p. 123). 
