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Order PODICIPIDIFORMES. 



Family PODICIPIDJE. 

 Podilymbus podiceps. PIED-BILLED GREBE. 



Colymbus podiceps Linnceus, Sysfc. Nat. 1758, p. 136 : 

 Carolina. 



Podilymbus podiceps (Linn.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 205 ; 

 Ogilvie- Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. 1898, p. 553; Saun- 

 ders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 726. 



One example, a very young bird, is s;dd to have been killed 

 near Weymouth in the winter of 1880-1; probably there was 

 some error due to an accidental exchange of specimens. 



This Grebe occurs in North and South America, breeding 

 from British Columbia and Quebec south to Chile and the 

 Argentine. 



Order RALLIFORMES. 



Family RALLID.E. 



Porphyrio porphyrio. GREEN-BACKED GALLINULE. 



Fulica porphyrio Linna'us, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 152 : 

 " Asia." 



Porphyrio smaragdonotus Temm. ; B. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, 



p. 150 ; Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 518. 

 Porphyrio porphyrio (Linn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiii. 

 1894, p. 195. 



There are three records from Norfolk: Oct. 1876, Nov. 

 1877, and Aug. 1879. Probably all had escaped from 

 confinement. 



The Green-backed Gallinule ranges over the greater part 

 of Africa from the Cape to Egypt, and is occasionally met 

 with in southern Europe. 



