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131 (219) Gallinula galeata (Lichtenstein) 
FiLoripa GALLINULE 
Synonym—Gallinula chloropus galeata. 
Status—Fairly common summer visitant to suitable localities in the San 
Diegan District northwest to Santa Barbara, and in the San Joaquin-Sacramento 
Valley as far north as Sutter County: several breeding records. Recorded also 
from San Francisco (Newberry, Pac. R. R. Rep., v1, 1857, p. 96). A few winter 
southerly, as, for instance, at Los Angeles (Swarth, Condor, 1, 1900, p. 15). 
132 (221) Fulica americana Gmelin 
Coor 
Synonym—Mud-hen. 
Status—Abundant resident of suitable localities throughout the state, 
breeding at very many points both east and west of the Sierras. 
133 (222) Phalaropus fulicarius (Linnaeus) 
Rep PHALAROPE 
Synonym—Crymophilus fulicarius. 
Status—Common in both migrations over the ocean and along the seacoast; 
casual interiorly: Stockton (Belding, MS); Pasadena (J. Grinnell, Bds. Los 
Angeles Co., 1898, p. 16) ; Los Angeles (Willett, Pac. Coast Avif. no. 7, 1912, p. 
34). Winters irregularly on the ocean southerly: off San Diego (MeGregor, 
Osprey, 11, 1898, p. 88), around Santa Cruz and Anacapa islands (Willett, Con- 
dor, xu, 1910, p. 175), and off Point Pinos, near Monterey (Beck, Proe. Calif. 
Acad. Sei., 4th ser., m1, 1910, p. 70). 
134 (223) Lobipes lobatus (Linnaeus) 
NoRTHERN PHALAROPE 
Synonyms—Phalaropus lobatus; Phalaropus hyperboreus. 
Status—Common spring and fall migrant along the seacoast, both on the 
ocean and on nearby bodies of water inland. Recorded also from: head of Kern 
River (Henshaw, Rep. Wheeler Surv., 1876, p. 271) ; Mono Lake (W. K. Fisher, 
Condor, tv, 1902, p. 10) ; Webber Lake, Sierra County (Belding, Land Bds. Pace. 
Dist., 1890, p. 267); Lake Tahoe (Belding, MS); Yermo, Mohave Desert, 
August 20 to September 10 (Lamb, Condor, xtv, 1912, p. 35). 
135 (224) Steganopus tricolor Vieillot 
Winson PHALAROPE 
Synonyms—Phalaropus tricolor; Phalaropus wilsoni. 
Status—Fairly common summer visitant to suitable country in northeastern 
California. Recorded as breeding south to Lake Tahoe (Ray, Condor, v, 1903, 
p. 49), and west to Lower Klamath Lake, on Oregon line (H. C. Bryant, Condor, 
xvI, 1914, p. 232). Recorded in migration from Los Banos, Merced County (J. 
