208 IMessrs. G. M. Mathews and Tom Iredale : 



Order COLUMBIFORMES. 

 Family TREROXID.E. 

 Genus IIE.MIPHAGA. 

 Hemiphaya Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. Paris, vol. xxxix. 

 ]854., p. 1076. 



Type (by original designation) : H. novceseeland'ue 

 (Gmeliu). 



Hemipliaga novaeseelandiae novaeseelandiae (Gmeliii). New 

 Zealand Pigeon. 

 Columba uov<sseeland}(E Gmclin, Syst. Nat. 1789, p. 773 : 

 Dusky Sound, South Island, 



Synonyms : — 



Cviumha zeakuidica Latham, Index Oruilli. vol. ii. 1790, p. 70^^ : 



same locality. 

 Coluinha spadiceu leucopJuea Ilombrou & Jacquinot, Ann. Sci. Nat, 



Paris, 2nd ser. vol. xvL 1841, p. 319 : Akaroa, South Island. 

 Columba ar(/etrcea Forster, Descr. Anim. ed. Licht, 1841, p. 80 : 



Dusky Sound, South Island. 

 Ilemipliaya nov<ezealanclice Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. .36. 



Range : — Both Islands (breeding). 



Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae chathamensis (Rothschild). Chat- 

 ham Islands' Pigeon. 

 Carpophaya chathamensis Rothschild, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1891, p. 312 : Chatham Islands. 

 Synonym : — 



Himiiihar/a chathamensis Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 41. 

 Range: — Chatham Islands (breeding). 



Order RALLIF0R3IES. 



Family RALLID.E. 



Genus RALLU3. 

 Rallus Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 153, 

 Type (by subsequent designation) : R. aquaticus Linne. 



