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RALLIDiE. 
Genus CENOLIMNAS Sharpe. 
CEnolimnas Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, vol. i. p. 28, 1893, 
Type (by original designation) : Rallina Isabellina Schl. 
CEnolimnas isabellinus (Sclil.). (23-80.) 
Rallina isabellina Schlcgel, Mus. Pays-Bus, Ralh , p. 16, 1805: 
Gorontass, Celebes; ex Euryzona isabellina Bonaparte, Conipt. 
Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. xliii. p. 599, 1850, n. n. (Fig. 
M. & W. pi. 43.) 
Distr .—Celebes. 
Genus PORZANA Vieillot. 
Porzana Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith. p. 01, April 14th, 1810. Type 
C»y monotypy) : “ Marouette Buff on M = Rallus porzana Linne. 
Mustelirallus Bonaparte, Comptos Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. xliii. p. 599, 
Sept. 1856. Type*(by monotypy) x Rallus alhicollis Vieillot. 
Galeolimnas Heine und Reichcnow, Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 320 (pref. Sept.), 
1890. New name for Mustelirallus Bonaparte. 
Porzana fluminea Gould. 
Distr.- —Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, 
South Australia, South-West Australia. 
Porzana fluminea fluminea Gould. (23-101.) 
Porzana fluminea Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1842, p. 139, Feb. 
1843: New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, Austr. vi. pi. 79.) 
Rallus novsehollanduB Pucberan, Rev. Mag. Zool. 1851, p. 278 (July): New 
South Wales. 
Distr. — Queensland, New South Wales, Vic toria, and Tasmania. 
Porzana fluminea whitei Mathews. 
Porzana fluminea whitei Mathews, Austral Av. llec. vol. i. p. 73, 
June 28th, 1912: Eyre’s Peninsula, South Australia. (Fig. 
Math, pi 51.) 
Distr. —South and South-West Australia. 
Genus ZAPORNIA Stephens. 
Zapornia Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool. vol. xii. pt. i. p. 230, 1824. 
Type (by monotypy): Z. pusilla Stephens =Rallus parvus 
Scopoli. 
Zaporina Forster, Pocket Encycl. Nat. Phon. p. 418, 1827. Typo (by mono¬ 
typy) ’ Little Crake = Rallns partus Scopoli (ex id. Synopt. Cat. pp. 27-59 
Dec. 1817). 
Phalaridion Kaup, Skizz. Entwick.-Gosch. Nat. Syst. p. 173 (pref. April), 1829. 
Type (by subsequent designation, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. iii. p. 593, Nov. 1846): 
0. minnta = Rall ns parvus , Scopoli. 
Rallites Pucberan, Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 277 (for Aug., publ. in Sept.). Type (by 
subsequent designation) : R. parvus Scopoli. 
ScJurnocrex Roberts, Ann. Transvaal Mus. vol. viii. pt. iv. p. 197, Oct. 30th, 
1922. Type (by original designation): Rallus pusillus Pallas. 
