44 A. von Pelzeln on Birds in 



94. Porphyrio parvus (Bodd.). (303.) 

 Favorite de Cayenne, Buff. PI. Enl. 897. 



Favourite Gallinule, Lath. Gen. Synops. v. 256, 8 (in Mus. 

 Lever.) . 



Fulica flavirostris, Gmel. Syst. i. 699. 



Gallinula flavirostris, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 769, 10. 



Sale Cat. n. 1414 (Waterhen) was given to the collection of 

 the Gymnasium at Agram in the year 1854. 



95. Notornis ? alba (White). (102.) 



White Gallinule, Callam, Bot. Bay, 1783 (teste Gray) ; 

 Phillips's Voyage to Bot. Bay, 273, cum fig. 1789; Latham, 

 Gen. Synops. Suppl. ii. 327; Bennett, P. Z. S. 1869, 471. 



Fulica alba, White, Journal of a Voyage to New South 

 Wales (1790), 238, c. tab. 



Gallinula alba, Lath. Ind. Orn. 768. 8; idem, Gen. Hist, 

 ix. 428. 



Porphyrio albus, Lath. ; Temminck, Man. d'Ornith. ii. 701; 

 idem, PI. Col. genre Porphyrio, sp. 4; Steph. Gen. Zool. xii. 

 261 ; Gray, Ibis, 1862, 240 (with details from Latham's Gen. 

 Hist). 



Porphyrio melanotus, Temm. (albino variety) ; Gray, Zool. 

 Erebus and Terror, 19 ; idem, Gen. of Birds, 598. 



Porphyrio melanotus, Temm., var. ; Bonap. Compt. Bend. 

 xliii. (1856) 599, (tabl. Grallae). 



Notornis? alba (White), Pelzeln, Sitzungsber. d. k. Akad. 

 Wissensch. xli. (1860) 328; A. Newton, Ibis, 1866, 159 

 (note) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1871, 443. 



White Bird, Hill, Lord Howe's Island, Sydney, 1870. 



Porphyrio albus, Shaw; Gray, Hand-1. iii. Suppl. 344. 



Our collection is in possession of White's type {Fulica alba, 

 Norfolk Isl.) ; the identity of the bird is proved by White's 

 remark in the preface to his book, that the birds from 

 which the drawings were taken are deposited in the Leverian 

 Museum. 



In a letter on Lord Howe's Island (P. Z. S. 1869, p. 471) Dr. 

 G. Bennett says that the White Gallinule figured in Phillip's 

 'Voyage to Botany Bay,' and foimd only in Norfolk and 



