According to the work of Dawson (1923) and Grinnell and Miller (1944), there were no records of the Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) occurring in California. Grinnell and Miller did state, however, that there was “ground to expect stragglers from the south across the Mexican line into San Diego County.” Since the time of these works there have been five or six California records (McCaskie 1964, Small 1974), none of which are from Orange County. All sightings have been from coastal California, except the Claremont-Harbor Park bird(s) of 1963 (see Appendix).