BREWSTER: BIRDS OF THE CAPE REGION, LOWER CALIFORNIA. 55 
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 NicHT HERon. 
Nyctherodius violaceus Bripine, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 544 (Cape Region), 
548 (San José). 
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 José del Cabo, where, according 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 northward as California. It ranges southward to Central America and 
northern South America. 
Rallus beldingi Rivew. 
BeLpine’s Rar. 
Rallus beldingi Rrpeway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1882, 345, 346 (orig. descr. : 
type from Espiritu Santo Islands); VI. 1883, 158, footnote (crit.; S. Lower 
Calif.). Brtpine, Jbid., V. 1883, 545 (Espiritu Santo Islands). Bairp, 
Brewer, and Ripeway, Water Birds N. Amer., I. 1884, 356, 857 (descr. ; 
crit.; Espiritu Santo Island; La Paz). A. O. U., Check List, 1886, 140, 
no. 209. Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 270 (Espiritu 
Santo Island; La Paz). Suarpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIII. 1894, 10 
(descr.; La Paz; Espiritu Santo Island, ete.; subsp. of Rallus elegans). 
Cougs, Key N. Amer. Birds, 4th ed., 1894, 888 (descr.; Espiritu Santo 
Island). 
[Rallus] beldingt SHarre, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIII. 1894, 7 (key to species); 
Hand-list, I. 1899, 93. 
R.[allus] beldingi Rripeway, 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 
