NOTES AND REFEEENCES. 



647. Gallinula kuficrissa, Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) Vol. IV., 

 p. 110. (18G9). ? = Amaurornis (Porzana) moluccana, Wallace. 

 See P.Z.S.. 1865, p. 480. Gould figures his bird with sl frontal shield. 

 I believe them to be distincl. 



649. Salvador! in literas, states that the Parra from New Guinea is the 

 true P. GALLiNACEA of Temniitick, and that the Australian bird is a 

 distinct species, which he calls P. nov.«:-hollandi^.' See Salvad., 

 Orn. Pap. et MoUucc. III., 308-9. This new species was formed by 

 Salvador! on my pointing out the distinction between them, and 

 descinbing the New Guinea bird as Paera NOViE guineas. 



