778 THE aiBDS OF LORD HOWE AND NORFOLK ISLANDS, 



are incorrect; and, from the evidence I have put forward, that 

 the bird was confined to Lord Howe Island. In " Extinct Birds" 

 (1907, p. 143), Rothschild separates the two birds, calling the 

 Liverpool bird Notornis stanleyi Rowley, and identifying it with 

 the White Gallinule of Phillip's "Voyage," restricting it to Lord 

 Howe Island; the Vienna specimen he recognises as Notornis 

 alba White, and assumes that it lived only on Norfolk Island, hs 

 White gave no localit}'. But I have quoted the text of White's 

 "Journal," where he gives an account of it on Lord Howe Island, 

 so that it would seem White's bird came from that local itv,, 

 though afterwards labelled " Norfolk Island." I conclude tliat, 

 upon the preceding reports, the only habitat to be assigned to 

 the White Gallinule is Lord Howe Island, and, therefore, Fulica 

 alba White, Gallinula a/ba Latham, and Porphyrio staideyi 

 Rowley, are synonymous. Reference to the Watling drawings 

 seems to support this view. No. 258 is of a totally white bird^ 

 and Watling wrote "one-third its natural size. Tliis bird is of 

 Howe Island, and when young is entirely black, from that to a 

 blueish grey, and from that to an entire white. This bird feeds 

 itself with its feet like a Parrot," and later he added " White 

 Gallinule complete, Latham Syn. Suppt. 2, p. 327." No. 259 was 

 first described by Watling as " Three stages of this Bird taken at 

 Lord Howes Island before it arrives to maturity," and later is 

 added " Three changes of the White Gallinule, Latham, Syn. 

 Suppt. 2, p. 327." Here is figured a blackish bird, a blackish 

 bird with the breast blue, and a pure white bird. It will be 

 noted that the only habitat given is Lord Howe Island. These 

 figures prejudiced Latham to the view that the white birds were 

 probably only albinoes of the Purple Gallinule, but a consideration 

 of the literature altogether discredits that conclusion. 



The Watling drawings also provide the solution of the identity 

 of the Norfolk Island Petrel. No. 280 represents a Puffiniis; the- 

 legs and feet are yellowish-green, the claws black, the bill is 

 blackish at the tip, otherwise yellowish-green or horn-colour 

 Watling, when he drew it, wrote " Norfolk Island. The Mutton- 

 bird, in full feather." Later he added between " Norfolk Island' 



