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RALLIDA5, 
Porphyrio melanotus melanotus Temminck. (23-205.) 
Porphyrio melanotus Temminck, Manuel cTOrn. 2e 6d. vol. ii. p. 701, 
Oct. 21st, 1820: New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, Austr. vi. pi. 69.) 
Porphyrio cyanocep halite Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. xliii. 
p. 599, Sept. 22nd, 1856, as synonym of melanotus Temm. 
Distr. —South Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and 
South Australia. 
Porphyrio melanotus fletcherae Mathews. 
Porphyrio melanotus jletcherce Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. i. p. 243, 
Aug. 9th, 1911: Tasmania. 
Distr .— Tasmania. 
Porphyrio melanotus neomelanotus Mathews. 
Porphyrio melanotus neomelanotus Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. i. 
p. 246, pi. 60, Aug. 9th, 1911: Parry’s Creek, North-West 
Australia. (Fig. as above.) 
Distr. —Northern Australia. 
Porphyrio melanotus stanleyi Rowley. 
Porphyrio stanleyi Rowley, Ornith. Miscell. vol. i. p. 37, Jan. 1875 
(albino): New Zealand. (Fig. Buller, 2nd ed. pi. 31; Rowley, 
Misc. i. pi. 37.) 
Distr. — New Zealand. 
Porphyrio melanotus chathamensis Forbos. (23-206.) 
Porphyrio chathamensis Forbes, Ibis, 1893, Oct., p. 531: Chatham 
Islands. 
Distr .—Chatham Islands. 
Porphyrio melanotus pelewensis (H. & F.). (23-206.) 
Porphyrio melanotus peleicensis Hartlaub & Finsch, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. Lond. 1872, p. 107 : Pelew Islands. 
Distr. —Pelew Islands. 
Porphyrio calvus Vieillot. 
Distr .—Celebes, Moluccas, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New 
Britain, New Ireland, New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoan, and 
Friendly Islands. Borneo, Java, and Sumatra. 
Porphyrio calvus calvus Vieillot. (23-192, 200.) 
Porphyrio calvus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. vol. xxviii. p. 28, 
May 1819: Java. 
Porphyrio indicus Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond, vol. xiii. p. 194, 1821 : 
Java. 
Porphyrio smaraydimis Temminck, Planch. Color. d’Ois. pi. 421, 1826: now 
name for indiew Horsf. 
Distr .—Java, Sumatra, and Southern Celebes. 
