THE GENUS PORPHYRIO AND ITS SPECIES. 



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4. P. calvus. 



5. P. cceleslis. 



6. P. chloronotus. 



7. P.poUocephalus. 



8. P. edwardsi. 



9. P. pulvendentus. 



blue, washed with green ; under 



parts dark violet blue 

 (5.) Like the above, but with the rump 



white ! 

 (c.) Occiput dark blue; sides of face 



and chin turquoise blue ; back 



grass green ; under-parts pale 



violet blue 



D. Sides of face and occiput near the 



head-shield, grey, tinged with purple. 

 (a.) Back and rump dark purple ; 



wings pale greenish-blue 

 (b.) Back, rump, wings and tail, 



uniform greenish black 



E. Head, neck and breast greyish-blue ; 



wings ultramarine ; back and tail 

 reddish-brown ; abdomen, flanks and 

 thighs indigo blue 



1.— Porphyrio cyanocephalus, 



Porphyrio cyanophalus, (lege cyanocephalus), Vieill., Nouv. 



Diet. d'Hist. Nat. (1819), t. 28, p. 28. 

 Porphyrio melanotus, Temra. Man. Ornith. Tom., II, p. 701, 

 (1820).— Shaw, Gen. Zool. Vol. XII, (1824).— Gray, Gen. 

 B. Vol. Ill, p. 598.— Id. Ibis, (1862), p. 240.— Jouan. 

 Mem. Societ. Imp. Scien. Nat. (1863), p. 245.— Schleg.Mus. 

 Pays. Bas. p. 57, Ralli.— Finsch, Jour, fiir, Ornith. (1870), 

 p. 358.— Brehm. Jour. fur. Ornith. (1871), p. 34.— Hutt., 

 Ibis, (1872), p. 247.— Bull. Birds N. Zeal. (1873), p. 185.— 

 Brown, Ibis, (1874), p. 96.— Albert. Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 (1875), p. 530. . . 

 Porphyrio cyanocephalus, Vieill., Ency. Meth. Tom., Ill p. 1051, 



(1823). 

 Porphyrio melanonotus, Blyth, Cat., B. Mus. Asiat. Soc. (1849), 



p. 283.— Layd. Ibis, (1877), p. 363, sp. 81. 

 Porphyrio melanonotus var. pelewensis, Hartl., and Finsch, Proc. 



Zool. Soc, (1872), p. 107. 

 Porphyrio pelewensis, Hartl., and Finsch, Ornith. Sudsee-Ins. 



Palau Gruppe, (1875), p. 39, (small var.) 

 Porphyrio stanleyi, Howl., Ornith. Misc. Part II, pi, ix, (1875), 



albino. 

 Pukeko. Pakura. New Zealand, Buller. 



Hab. — Australia, Yule Island, New Guinea, (d' Albertis), New 

 Zealand, New Caledonia {Jouan, Layard), Chatham Islands. 

 (Hutton) . 



