150 KALLID^. 



Porpliyrio veterum. Dresser, vii. p. 299. 



CreriiUus — dark blue, iu classical Latin. 



Oue was taken alive at Boldon Flats, August 1863 ; and 

 another was caught near Ponteland, August 1873 (Hancock, 

 'Birds of Northumberland and Durham/ 1874). One was 

 shot near Campbeltown in Argyleshire, December 1863 

 (R. Gray, ' Birds of West of Scotland,' p. 337). These and 

 other recorded occurrences were probably of escaped spe- 

 cimens, as this North-west African and South-west Euro- 

 pean species rarely occurs far north, having only once 

 occurred in Germany. 



Porphyrio smaragdonotus. Greex-backed Gallixvlb. 



Porphyrio smaragnotus, Teniminck, Man. d'Orn. 

 ii. p. 700 (1820). 



Porphyrio smaragnotus, Dresser, vii. p. 303. 



Bmaragdo-noUis = with the back {yiuTov) coloured like a afiapayios — an 

 emerald. 



Has thrice occurred in Norfolk, viz. one at Tatterford, 

 October 1876 (Zool. 1877, pp. 228, 252, 253, 433), one near 

 Hickling, November 1, 1877 (Zool. 1878, p. 29), and another 

 on Barton Broad, August 23, 1879 (Zool. 1879, p. 458). 

 Some records of P. cceruleiis are likely to refer to the present 

 species ; both are not uncommonly kept in confinement and 

 escape. It inhabits the whole continent of Africa, and is 

 only a straggler north of the Mediterranean. 



Porphtjrio martinicas. MAnximquE Gallinulb. 



Fulica martinica, Linnoeus, S. N. i. p. 259 (1766). 



Porphyrio martinica. Gray, p. 181. 



Martmicus = of the i&land of Martinique, which was its only habitat known 

 to Linnffius. 



One is said to have been killed in Ireland (Thompson, 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, xviii. 1846, p. 311). A common 

 species in Tropical America.] 



