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Genus FULICA. 

 Fulica Liniie, Syst. Nat. lOlh ed. 1758, p. 152. 

 Type (by subsecjuent designation) : F. atra Linne. 



Fulica atra tasmanica Grant. Eastern Austi'alian Coot. 



Fulica tasmanica Grant, Tasm. Journ. Science^ vol. ii. 

 18iG, p. 310 : Tasmania. 



Synonym : — 



Ftiliat anst rail's Biiller, Sup])!, vol. i. p. 75. [The type-locality of 

 Fulica atra Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 15i', is Sweden, 

 and of Fulica australis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845, p. 2, is 

 Western Australia.] 



Hange: — New Zealand (accidental visitor: one occurrence- 

 Lake Waihora, South Island, July 181il)) : extralimital. 



Note : — Buller in the 'Supplement/ vol. i. p. 75, included 

 ? Fulica nov(ezealandi(B Colenso (Tasm. Journ. Science, 

 18J'5, p. 283 : Waikato, North Island), partly on account 

 of Sharpens admission of the species in the ' Hand-list.^ It is 

 quite obvious that neither had studied the description, which 

 is, however, reproduced by Buller, as it is at once obvious 

 that Colenso's bird was not a Coot and is only applicable, 

 and exactly, to the New Zealand Dabchick {^cc post.). 



Order PODICIPIFORMES. 



Family PODICIPID^E. 



Genus TODICEPS. 



Podiceps Latham, General Synops. Birds, Suppl. vol. i. 

 1787, p. 291. 



Type (by subs, design.) : P. cristutus (Linne). 



Note : — In the Novitates Zool. vol. xvii. 1910, p. 494, 

 the usage of Podiceps for the Grebes was reviewed by one 

 of us. The method of restriction there utilised in determin- 

 ing the generic names of the Grebes has been questioned, 

 and direct type designation quoted as of more importance. 

 In the Amer. Ornith. Union's Check-List, 3rd ed, 1910. 

 p. 21, Cohjmbus is used for the Grebes, the type of Colijmbus 

 Linne, 1758, being given as Colymlms cristatushy subsequent 

 designation by the A.O.U. Committee in 1886. 



