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Volume 45, 1912
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Porphyrio melanotus.

The skin of a specimen shot by K. Bell on the Denham Bay beach on the 27th April, 1909, is in the Auckland Museum. R. Bell notes: “Contents of stomach, quills and bits of feather. From this we may conclude that it has been eating the dead wideawakes.”