. A dictionary of birds . ct shouldj)robably be called 0. liectori. An extinct species has been indicated by Mr. H. {Tr. N. Z. Inst. 1892, p. 188) from the Chatham Islands. - The subject of Sparrmans figure, above mentioned, may possibly have beenfrom this island, the birds of which were distinguished by their bright coloming(c/. Nestok, p. 628). ^ It has lately been referred by Dr. Sliarpe, though its affinity is not explained,to the genus Cahalus, the tjpe of which is Rallus modestus, a small species {Cat. B. Br. JIus. 331, pi. vi.) perhapsstill surviAdng on one ofthe Chath
. A dictionary of birds . ct shouldj)robably be called 0. liectori. An extinct species has been indicated by Mr. H. {Tr. N. Z. Inst. 1892, p. 188) from the Chatham Islands. - The subject of Sparrmans figure, above mentioned, may possibly have beenfrom this island, the birds of which were distinguished by their bright coloming(c/. Nestok, p. 628). ^ It has lately been referred by Dr. Sliarpe, though its affinity is not explained,to the genus Cahalus, the tjpe of which is Rallus modestus, a small species {Cat. B. Br. JIus. 331, pi. vi.) perhapsstill surviAdng on one ofthe Chatham Islands,which some ornitholo-gists have refused toacknowledge, holding itto be the young of (itself alsoreferred occasionally toOcyclromus, but beingapparently a moditicdIlijpotxnidia), knownfrom the unique specimen in the British Museum ; but the judgment of itsoriginal deacriber, Ca])t. Hutton, is now admitted, and should never have beendoubted after liis full account of it {Ibis, 1873, pp. 3-19-352).. Rallus dieffenbaciii. (From Buller.) WET-M Y-FO 0 T— WHA UP 1033 {Froc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 431) to Ocydromtis, and has certainly someresemblance thereto (cf. Layard, Ihis, 1882, p. 535). Subsequentlyplaced by Gray in Eulaheornis (Brenchley, Cruise of the Curagoa,pi. xxi.), Dr. Sharpe has more recently proposed for it a distinct genusTricholimnas. Akin to Ocydromus must have been Diaphorapteryx, arecently extinct form made known by Mr. H. 0. Forbes from oneof the Chatham Islands, where its bones were found in at first referred it to the Mauritian genus Aphanapteryx(Extermination, p. 217), but subsequently {NafAire, xlv. p. 416)separated it therefrom, a course which has been justified by {Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 8, ii. pp. 117-136, pis. ),^and Mr. AndrcAvs {Mvit. Zool. 1896, pp. 73-84, pi. iii.).^ There isa curious analogy between the two forms, but the latter, svhich wasmentioned by Herbert, and is the Poule rouge of some of
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