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volant ; and if the plates of Miss Stone in White, Latham in Phillip, and 

 the ' Ibis ' one can be in the least depended upon, it is a different species from 

 the Vienna bird, now called Notornis (?) alba. It is difficult, however, to judge 

 from a plate. Porphyrio melanotus is a bird of flight. It is strange that 

 so many authors, acute observers, should never mention the spur on the wing, 

 which I find present in P. melanotus, P. stanleyi, and Notornis mantelli, as well 

 as in the Vienna bird. Messrs. Hartlaub and Finsch, on birds from the Pacific 

 Islands (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 27), speaking of Porphyrio vitiensis, say "its size, 

 as usually in Porphyrio, varies a good deal." 



Just as this was going to press I received the following, for which I have 

 to thank the Rev. George Weare Braikenridge, of Clareraont, Clevedon : — 



CATALOGUE OF THE LEVERIAN MUSEUM. 



Part III. 

 Page 118.— Twenty-fourth day. Saturday, 31st May, 1806. 2782. White 

 Fulica (Fulica alba^. New Holland. 



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