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To^^fja Is.: Tonga-ta,l)u (Forst.), Eua „cxt.inct'' (Iliihier), — Samoa Is. (Graffe etc,). — Fiji Is. : 



Ovalau (Peale, Lay.)^ Viti Levu (Grliffey Lay.), Ngau (Rayner). 



JVetv Jlebrldes (Lay.): Tanna (Lai/i,)^ 



Aneiteinn (Gray), — New Caledonia (Verr., Lay.), 

 Vail Dieinen's Land; New Zealand; Hortbrk Id. 



Caroline Is.: Ualan (Kittl.), 



Australia; 



311.* Ortygometra tahitiensis. 



Otaheite Rail, Lath, Gen. Syn. Ill, 236, 



Rallus tahitiensis Gm.. S. N. 1788 \\, 717; LMth. Ind. 



Orn. 1790 II, 759; Bech.t, Lath. Uebors. Ill, 207; IV, 465. 



178 (ex Otaheite tantum). 



— Eallus minntus, pt. Forst. Dcscr. An. 1844, 

 Corethrura tahitiensis Gray, Gen. B. Ill, 595. — Porzana tahitiensic llartl. 



W^iegm. Arch: 1852, 136; id. J. f. 0. 1854, 169. — Zapornia tahitiensis Bp. C. R. 1856, 599. — Ortygometra 

 tahitiensis Gray, B. Trop. Is. 52; F.etlL Orn. Centralpol. 170. — Aramus tahitiensis Gray, IL L. 1871 III, 



59 no. 10412. 



„Maho", Tahiti (Forst.). 



Society Is.: Tahiti and the adjacent ialands (Lath,, Forst.). 



This species may be distinguished from 0. tabuensis Q m. by its white first primary and the white 

 margins of the others. Latham has given the Tonga Ishinds as an additional locality for 0. tahitiensis 

 and the Society Islands for 0. tabuensis of Tonga-tabu, etc., but this would appear to be due to a 

 confusion of the two forms, granted that they are really entitled to specific distinction. 



312. Ortygometra cinerea. 



Sandwich Kail, var. L^ath. Gen. Syn. Ill, 236. 

 717; Bochst. Lath. Uebcrs. Ill, 207; IV, 464 (ex Tanna). 



II, 759. 



Porphyrio cinereus Vieill, N. Diet. 1819 XXVIII, 29. 



Eallus sandwichensis, var. /^, Gin. S. N. 1788 11, 

 - Eallus sandvicensis, var. L.ath. Ind. Orn. 1790 



— Eallus quadristrigatus Ilorsf. Tr. Linn. 



Soc. 1821 XllI, 196. 



275; id. Icon. inod. 131. 



Gallinula mystacina Temm. ap. Gray. 

 — Porzana leucophrys (illd. P. Z. S. 



- Eallus tannensis Forst. Descr. An. 1844, 

 1847, 33; id. B. Austr. 1848 VI, pi. 81; 



Verr.etDes.M. Rev. Zool. 1860, 437; 1862, 141; Jouan,Miim. Soc. Cherb. 1803 IX, 2m ; Marie, Actes S. L. 



l^ord. 1870 XXVII; id. Ibis 1877, 3G3. 



Ortygometra sp. Gray, B. Trop. Is. 52. 



Ortygometra tannensis 



Gray, ib. 52. 



Porzana cinerea Schl. Mus. P. B, Ralli 1865, 32. 



— Ortygometra quadristrigata Finsch, N. 



Guin. 1865, 181; F.ctIL Orn. Centralpol. 164; iid, P. Z. S. 1868, 8, 118; 1872, 107; Gray, H. L. 1871 

 III, 63 no. 10464; Finsch, J, f. 0. 1872, 53; Whltmve, Ibis 1875, 446; Lay. P. Z. S. 1875, 439; 1876, 496, 

 505; id. Ibis 1876, 393; Ramsay, Pr. L. S. JST. S. W. 1877 II, 142; Nehrkom, J. f. 0. 1879, 408; Schmdtl 

 Verb. Ver. ITamb. 1879, 80; La,y. Ibis 1880, 232; 1882, 537, 544; Rchnw. J. f. 0. 1891, 127. - Ortygometra 

 cinerea Walden, Tr. Z. S. 1872 VIII, 94; Finsch, J. Mus. Godef. 1875 Vlll, 38; id. P. Z. S. 1877, 785; Lay, 

 Ibis 1878, 263; Oust, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1879 July; Finsch, P. Z. S. 1880, 577; Schmeltz, Ethn. Abth. M. G. 

 353; Sahad, Orn. Pap. 1882 111, 273. — „Vai", Samoa Is. (GrUffe), — „Thoin", Lifn (Lay.). — „Aghia", New 

 Caledonia {Vcrr.). — „Bal", Uap (Kuh.). — „Sungarok", Pelew Is. (Tetens, Kuh.). 



Samoa Is.: (Whitmee), Upolu (Graffe). 



Witiafou ? (ILul 



otter 



Viti Levu and Ovalau (Lay,), 



New Hebrides: Tanna (Forst.). 



Fiji Is.: N'gau (Gray), 



loyalty Is. : Lifu (LM,y.). 



New Caledonia (Verr., L.ay.). — Peleiv Is. (Tetens etc.). — Caroline Is. : Uap, Euk (Kuh.). 



ludo- and Austro-Malayan subregions ; Australia. 



Indii 



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313.* Pareudiastes pacificus. 



Pareudiastes pacificus Hartl et Finsch.^ P. Z. S. 1871, 25 pi. II; Finsch, J. f. 0. 1872, 54; Whitmee 



'J. 



S. 



1874, 184, 605; Schmeltz, Ethn. Abth. M. G. 1881, 472. 



„Punae" (Kuh.), 



Sainoan Is. : Savaii (Kuhary). 



314.* Porphyrio melanonotus pelewensis. 



Porphyrio melanotus IL et F. (nee BlytJi).^ P. Z^ S. 1868, 8, 118. — Porphyrio melanotus var. 

 pelewensis IL, et F, P. Z. S. 1872, 107. — Porphyrio pelewensis (? Schmeltz), Cat. Mus. Godef. 1874 V, 13; Finsch, 

 J. Mus. Godef. VIII, 39; Salvad, Atti Accad. Sc. Tor. 1879 XIV, 1166, 1169; ('t Schneltz) , Ethn. Abth. M. G. 

 1881, 407; Meyer.^ Abh. u. Ber. Mus. Dresden 1891, no. 4, 16. — Porphyrio cyanocephalus, pt. Elliot.^ Str. 



F. 1878 VIL 13. 



„Wek" (Kuh.); „Wak" (Tetens), 



Velew Is. (Tetens etc.). 



