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African Swamphen
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(
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<emphasis id="B48EEA91355CFFE8FF1FF994FEA4F9BB" box="[151,356,1625,1649]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Gallinula porphyrio</emphasis>
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, p.lxviii.
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<emphasis id="B48EEA91355CFFE8FF1FF9B5FE62F95A" box="[151,418,1656,1680]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Porphyrio smaragdonotus</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B48EEA91355CFFE8FF1FF95BFEABF964" box="[151,363,1686,1710]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Porphyrio porphyrio</emphasis>
Carié, 1916, p.247
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<emphasis id="B48EEA91355CFFE8FF1FF978FE03F907" box="[151,451,1717,1741]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Porphyrio madagascariensis,</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="E26B4B72355CFFE8FE41F979FD92F907" author="Vinson, A." box="[457,594,1716,1741]" pageId="50" pageNumber="51" pagination="625 - 632" refId="ref57557" refString="Vinson, A. (1868) De l'acclimatation a l'Ile de la Reunion. Bulletin de la Societe Nationale d'Acclimatation de France, 5, 625 - 632." type="journal article" year="1868">Vinson, 1868</bibRefCitation>
, p.628
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; E.
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, p.552;
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, p.207;
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Rountree
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. 1952
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<emphasis id="B48EEA91355CFFE8FF1FF919FDE8F926" box="[151,552,1748,1772]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Porphyrio porphyrio madagascariensis</emphasis>
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, p.369
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;
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, p.160; del
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, pp.352
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swamphens are wide-ranging birds that have reached isolated islands and island archipelagos on a number of occasions. Two species have been recorded in the Mascarenes as rare or accidental vagrants, but neither species has ever naturally become established. The African Swamphen
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p.
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has a wide distribution, being found in
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, Africa south of the Sahara and
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(
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). A specimen held at UMZC was collected on
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and sent by Edward Newton to his brother, Alfred, at Cam- bridge in 1861, and considered identical to the
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species (A.
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). E. Newton considered the species as possibly resident, but later thought it was possibly introduced (E.
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); However, most authors considered it exotic (see
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Rountree
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. 1952
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), as
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noted that some had been introduced from
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, and shipments of birds were introduced in the 1860s, after which the species became well established (A.
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;
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; Carié 1916). It declined during the 20th century due to the active drainage of wetlands on
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to combat malaria (
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), and seemingly disappeared completely by the 1950s (
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;
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). A single subsequent record in 1976 indicates that it is an extremely rare vagrant, although
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suggest that a tiny residue of the introduced birds may have survived.
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The African Swamphen was also occasionally reported on
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, with a flock of captive birds breeding on a lake in the Jardin du Roi in Saint-Denis (
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;
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), and it also occurred on the Étang de St-Paul (
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); these latter-named birds may have been introduced birds or vagrants (
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). The population has since died out (
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).
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