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94. Tribonyx ventralis territorii subsp. n. 



Northera Black-tailed Native Hen. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 59 (pars). 



Difters from T. i: renfralis in liaving browu wing-coverts. 



Type : Alexandra, Northern Territory. 



Range : Northern Territory, North-AVest Australia. 



Genus GALLIITULA. 



Giilliimla Tunstall. 0,-nitli. Brit. p. 3. 1771. 



Type (by tautonymy) : G. c/iloro//i/i> (Linne). 



95. Gallinula moluccana ruficrissa. 



Galliiado fnli<:ii««n Gould, Ann. Maij. Nat. HUt. ser. iv. vol. iv. p. 110. 1869: Cape River, 

 Queensland. 



Rafous-tailed Moorhen. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 57. 



Range : North Queensland, Northern Territory. 



9tj. Gallinula tenebrosa tenebrosa. 



G'lUhiuhi tenrhrmii Gould, Pnir. Zonl. S>i<: {Limit.) 184U. p. 20 ; South Australia. 



Black Moorhen. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 60 (i)ars). 



Range : Sonth Australia, Victoria, Southern New South Wales. 



97. Gallinula tenebrosa magnirostris snbsp. n. 



Western Black Moorhen. 



Mathews, Handlist No. GO (parsj. 



Differs from G. t. tenebrosa in having a larger bill. 



Type : Guilford, West Australia, No. 218. 



Range : West Australia. 



08. Gallinula tenebrosa subfrontata subsp. n. 



Northern Black Moorhen. 

 Mathews, Handlist No. 6U (pars). 



Differs from G. t. tenebrosa in its smaller size ; figured and described in my 

 Birds of Australia, vol. i. p. 232. pi. 57, as G. t. tenebrosa. 

 Type: Richmond River, New South Wales, No. 217. 

 Range : New Sonth Wales, Queensland. 



Genus FORFHYRIO. 



Piirpliyriii Bonnaterre, Tahl- Enn/rl. Mi'tliml. Ornilli. vol. i. p. xciv. 1701. 

 Type (by tautonymy) : P. porphyrio (Linne). 



