A Reference List of the Birds uf New Zealand. 215 



Note : — At the place cited, Buller described a Ncav Zea- 

 land specimen, but since then it has been ignored, but no 

 explanation for its oujissiou given. The recent record of a 

 specimen in New South Wales points to the acceptance of 

 the New Zealand occurreuce.] 



Genus POEZANA. 



Porzana Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith. 1816, p. 61. 

 Type (by monotypy) : P. porzana (Linne). 



Porzana pusilla afiBnis (Gray). Marsh-Rail. 



Ortyyometra affinis Gray, Voy. ' Erebus ' and ' Terror,' 

 Birds, 1845, p. 14: Nangauui [sic) River, North Island. 



Synonym : — 



Porzana affinis Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 63. [The type-locality of 

 Rallus pusilhis Pallas, Reise Russ. Reiclis, vol. iii. 1776, p. 700, 

 is Transbaikalia.] 



Range : — Both Islands (breeding). 



Genus PORZAXOIDEA. 



Porzanoidea Mathews, Austral Avian Rec. vol, i. 1912, 

 p. 117, 



Type (by original designation) : P. immaculata (Swainson). 



Porzanoidea pliiml)ea plumbea (Gray). Swamp-Rail. 



Crex plumbea Gray in Griffith's ed. Cuvier's Animal 

 Kingdom, vol, iii, 1829, p, 410 : New Zealand. 



Synonym : — 



Porzana plumbea Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 63, 



Eange : — Both Islands (breeding) ; Chatham Islands. 



Genus PORPHYRIO. 



Porphyria Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encycl. Method., Ornith. 

 vol. i. 1791, p. xciv. 



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



