214. Porzana carolina (Sora Rail)
A specimen of this Rail was taken at one of the lakes in Laguna Canyon in the latter part of July.
421. Chordeiles acutipennis (Texas Night Hawk)
Either at dusk or at dawn these birds could be found abundantly, in certain localities, feeding over fields, pools and streams to which they came at dusk, from the hills where they spent the daylight hours. Mr. C. C. White found a pair of young almost ready for flight on one of the hills bordering on Laguna Canyon, July 7, 1916.
425. Aeronautes melanoleucus (White-throated Swift)
Mr. Charles A. Keeler in “Bird Notes Afield” (1889) records this species from Capistrano. To one accustomed to meeting with this bird only among the high and almost inaccessible cliffs of the mountains it is no little surprise to find it in a district so nearly level as the region about this old mission settlement. But surely it is there. A visit to the place in the latter part of July revealed the fact that they are, seventeen years since Mr. Keeler’s writings, still using the same broken walls as a retreat. I think they are nesting at the time we visited the place, for upon the entrance of an adult into one of the crevices there came cries of young birds which seemed to be coming from birds that were being fed.
530a. Astragalinus P. hesperophilus (Green-backed Goldfinch)
Common around Laguna and the neighboring hills. Nests with eggs were found, probably the second brood for the season.
634. Vireo vicinior (Gray Vireo)
Found along the streams near Capistrano.