Additional Records of the California Clapper Rail and Red Phalarope in California
Additional Records of the Calidornia Clapper Rail and Red Phalarope in California
On November 22, 1914, Mr. L. P. Bolander, Jr., secured at Tomales Bay, near Point Reyes Station, Marin County, California, the following two specimens which have been donated by him to the California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.
Rallus obsoletus, California Clapper Rail (no. 24916, Mus. Vert. Zool.), immature male. This is the first record of the species on the ocean side of the Marin Peninsula.
Phalaropus fulicarius, Red Phalarope (no. 24916, Mus. Vert. Zool.), immature female, in full winter plumage, The present record is the latest for the season for the northwestern coast of California. Beck (Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 4th ser., 1910, vol. 3, p. 70) states that there are fifteen specimens of third species in the collection of the California Academy taken near Monterey during December and January. Early in January, 1915, Mr. F. J. Smith submitted two specimens of Clapper Rail taken on Humboldt Bay, to the Museum-of Vertebrate Zoology for determination. The specimens are typical RaZZus obsoletus (California Clapper Rail). One of these birds was taken by Mr. Fiebig and is at present in the library of the Eureka School. The other is the property of Dr. F. J. Ottmer. These specimens substantiate the Humboldt Bay record made by Cooper and Suckley (Natural History of Washington Territory, 1859, p. 246) and, together with the Tomales Bay specimen, extend the area of occurrence of the species beyond that given by Cooke (U. S. Dept. Agric., bull. 128, 1914, pp. 18, 19).
Tracy I. Storer
California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, California
