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Subfam. II. Fulicin.e. 

 Conspectus generum Fulicinarum. 



a. cligiti monibraiia laterali omuino earentes: nares ovales ... 0. Porphi/rio. 

 h. cligiti uienibraiia laterali in.strupti : iiares lineariforines. 

 «'. digitofuiu nienibraiia angusta, coiitinua. 



a", clypeo frontali parvo, triquetro, elevato 7. Poiyhi/riup^. 



b". clypeo froiitali oxjianso, rotundato 8. GaUinuIu. 



h . digitorum membi-ana lobifonni 9. Fulica. 



Type. 



Genus G. Porphyrio. 



Porphyria, Tenim P. antiquorum. 



lonornis, Rcichenb. Nat. Syst. p. x.\i (1853) .. P. marfiniciis. 



*PorphijruIa, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 5<}9 (1851) ... P. martinicus 



Glaucestes, Reicheub. Nat. Syst. p. xxi (1853). . P. parvus. 



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Head of Tovfhyrio martmicns, showing the oval nostril. 



1. Porphyrio MARTINICUS. 



Fulica murtinica, Linn. S. N. i. p. 259. 



Gallinula martinica. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 812. 



Gallinula martinicensis, Max. Beitr. iv. p. 812. 



Crex martinica, Licht. Doubl. p. 79. 



Porphyrio tnartinica, Temm. PI. Col. 405 (text) ; Biirm. Syst. 

 Ueb. iii. p. 392; Gosse, B. Jam. p. 377; Schomb. Guian. iii. 

 p. 761; Sclater, P. Z. S. 18(il, p. 81; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, 

 p. 372, et 1867, p. 592 ; Ibis, 1859, p. 230 ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, 

 p. 64; Tavlor, Ibis, 1864, p. 96 et p. 171; Leotaud, Ois. Tiin. 

 p. 501. 



lonornis martinicensis, Reichenb. Nat. Syst. p. xxi. 



Gallinula martinica, Baird, B. N. A. p. 753; Sclater, P. Z. S. 

 1864, p. 179. 



Porphyrio tavoua, Vieill. Gal. ii. t. 267. 



Porphyrula martinica, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 599 (1856); Guudlacli, 

 Rep. F. N. i. p. 362. 



» Porphyrula is a genus originally established by Blyth (Cat. B. As. S. Mus. 

 p. 283), of whicli the type is Porphyrio chhronofi'/s. described bv Blyth (J. A. 

 .S. B. xviii. p. 28.3) from an unknown locality. Bonaparte niisa)>plied'this term 

 to P. marthik-tis, and lias misled Baird (B. N. A. p. 7.V?) into following him. 



