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of barley, which it had picked up from the place where the horses had 

 been fed. 



Note. — Mr. Nelson saw four birds at Lone Pine, in Owens Valley T 

 December, 1890, which he thought were whooping cranes, and saw a 

 hook of seventeen sand-hill cranes at the Bend of the Colorado in 

 March. In both cases the birds were too far off for positive identifi- 

 cation, and as the region is out of the known range of the former spe- 

 cies, it is x^robabie th at some other large bird was mistaken for it. 



Rallus virginianus. Virginia Kail. 



Mr. Nelson reported the species as common at Saratoga Springs in 

 Death Valley, where Mr. Bailey caught a specimen in a trap February 3, 

 One was seen at Ash Meadows, Nevada, about the middle of March, 

 and the species was not uncommon at Lone Pine in Owens Valley, where 

 two were secured June 7-10. Mr. Nelson saw one at the head of Morro 

 Bay, Calif., in November. Dr. Merriam frequently heard a rail among- 

 the tules and reeds in Pahranagat Valley, Nevada, May 26, but was un- 

 able to say whether it was this species or the sora. 



Record of specimens collected of Rallus virginianus. 



Col- 

 lector's 

 No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Remarks. 





9 



d juv. 

 cfjuv. 



Death Valley, Calif 



Feb. 3, 1891 

 June 7, 1891 

 June 10, 1891 



V. Bailey 



Saratoga Springs. 



310 





A. K. Fislier 



do 



326 





Do. 











Porzana Carolina. Sora. 



A sora rail was seen at Ash Meadows, Nevada, March 10; one at 

 Grapevine Spring, California, the first part of April; and another at 

 Little Owens Lake, early in May. No others were seen. 



Fulica americana. Coot. 



Coots were common at a number of places where tule marshes occurred. 

 A number were seen in the Mohave Desert, along the edge of the Mo- 

 have Biver at Victor, early in January. In Death Valley it was found 

 common at Saratoga Springs about February 1, and again in the lat- 

 ter part of April. At Ash Meadows, Nevada, it was common during 

 the first three weeks in March, and a few were seen in Vegas Wash, 

 early in the month. In Owens Valley, Mr. Stephens found it common 

 at Little Owens Lake, May 6-11, and at Ash Creek, on the southwestern 

 side of Owens Lake, the first of June. At Lone Pine it was common 

 on the lakes in December, 1890, and at a lake south of the same place, 

 August 23, 1891. A pair with their young was seen in a small pond, 

 June 5. In Nevada, Dr. Merriam observed the species in the marshes 

 in Vegas Wash, May 2; in the valley of the Muddy, May 6; and in 

 Pahranagat Valley, May 24. At the west end of the Mohave Desert, 

 in California, Mr. Palmer found coots common on Elizabeth Lake, July 

 2, and saw several on Crane Lake and on ponds near Gorman Station, 



