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Gallinula tenebrosa magnirostris Mathews. 
Gallinula tenebrosa magnirostris Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. 
p. 195, Jan. 31st, 1912: Guilford, West Australia. 
Distr. —South and Mid-West Australia. 
Gallinula tenebrosa subfrontata Mathews. 
Gallinula tenebrosa subfrontata Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. 
p. 195, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Richmond River, New South Wales. (Fig. 
Math. pi. 57.) 
Distr . —Queensland and Northern New South Wales. 
Gallinula frontata Wall. (93-168.) 
Gallinula frontata Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1863, p. 35: 
Buru. (Fig. M. & W. Birds Cel. pi. 53.) 
Distr. —New Guinea, Moluccas, Celebes, Borneo. 
Gallinula chloropus (L.). 
Distr .—Nearly cosmopolitan. 
Gallinula chloropus chloropus (L.). (23-169.) 
Fulica chloropus Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. p. 152, 1758: England. 
(Fig. Dresser, vol. vii. pi. 503.) 
Distr .—Europe, Africa, and Azores. 
Gallinula chloropus orientalis Horsf. 
Gallinula orientalis Ilorsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. xiii. p. 195, 
1820: Java. 
Distr. —Greater Sunda Islands to Celebes. 
Gallinula chloropus sandvicensis Streets. (23-180.) 
Gallinula sandvicensis Streets, Ibis, 1877, p. 25, head figured: 
Oahu, Sandwich Islands. (Fig. Av. Haw. pi. 57.) 
])[ S 1 V '—Hawaiian Islands. 
Gallinula chloropus guami Hart. 
Gallinula chloropus guami Hartert, Nov. Zool. vol. xxiv. p. 268, 
1917: Guam, Marianne Islands. 
Distr. —Marianne Islands. 
Genus PORPHYRIO Brisson. 
Porphyrio Brisson, Ornitli. vol. i. p. 48, vol. v. p. 522, 1760. Type 
(by tautonymy) : Porphyrio —Fulica porphyrio Linne. 
Csesarornis Reichonbach, Nat. Syst. Yog. p. xxi, 1852 (1853). Type (by 
monotypy): Gallinula poliocephala Latham. 
Porphyrio melanotus Temminck. 
Distr.-— Australia (except South-West), Tasmania, Now Zealand 
(both Islands), Chatham, and Pelew Islands. 
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