RALLIDiE. 
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Zapornia pusilla (Pallas). 
Distr. —Afghanistan. Siberia to Australia and New Zealand. 
[Zapornia pusilla pusilla Pallas. (23-106.) 
ltallus pusillus Pallas, Ileise Russ. Reichs. vol. iii. p. 700 (pref. 
10th Feb. O.S.), 1776: Pauria, Siberia. Extra-liraital.] 
Distr. —The greater part of the Old World. 
Zapornia pusilla palustris (Gould). (23-109.) 
Porzana palustris Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lund. 1842, p. 139, 
Feb. 1843: Tasmania. (Fig. Gould, Austr. vi. pi. 80; Math, 
pi. 52.) 
Rallus minor Mathews, Check-list Birds Austr. pt. 2, p. iii, July 26th, 1923 ; 
as synonym of palustris (ex Cotton, Tasm. Journ. Nat. Sci. vol. iii. p. 364, 
1848). 
Distr. —Queensland, New Souih Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and 
South Australia. 
Zapornia pusilla fitzroyi (Mathews). 
Porzana pusilla fitzroyi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 73, 
June 28th, 1912: Derby, North-West Australia. 
Distr. —North-West Australia and Northern Territory. 
Zapornia pusilla affinis (Gray). (23-106-335.) 
Oriygometra affinis Gray, Voy. ‘ Erebus ’ and ‘Terror,’ p. 14, 1845 : 
Nanganui (sic) =Wanganui River, North Island, New Zealand. 
Distr. —New Zealand. 
Genus PORZANOIDEA Mathews. 
Porzanoidea Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 117, Dec. 28tli, 
1912. Type (by original designation) : Gallinula immaculata 
Swainson. 
Porzanoidea plumbea (Gray) *. 
Distr .—New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South and 
South-West Australia. New Zealand, Sunday Island, Now 
Caledonia, and Norfolk Island. 
Porzanoidea plumbea plumbea (Griff. & Pidg.). (23 111-335.) 
Or ex plumbea Griffith & Pidgeon, ed. Cuvier’s Anim. Kingd. vol. viii. 
p. 410, Oct. 31st, 1829 : no loc., restricted to New Zealand. (Fig. 
Puller, 1st ed. pi. 21, 2nd ed. pi. 33.) 
Distr .—New Zealand. 
# If this species is the same as the next, the name will be nigra Miller. 
