The takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri) is just one of New Zealand's spectacular endemic birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biological diversity in New Zealand] Reference

Mavortius and Porphyrio, the originals of which were probably discovered at Bobbio by his scholars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horace and His Influence] Reference

(Porphyrio simplex) was shot near the summit of the mountain, and it was evidently a solitary straggler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Species range from the large and colorful purple swamphen (Porphyrio Porphyrio) to several majestic egret species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests] Reference

The purpose of Porphyrio was to bring poetic beauty into relief by clarifying construction and sense, rather than to engage in learned exposition of the subject matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horace and His Influence] Reference

In 1476 was published the first Horace containing both text and notes, which were those of Acro and Porphyrio, and in 1482 appeared Landinus's notes, the first printed commentary on Horace by a modern humanist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horace and His Influence] Reference

Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio Porphyrio) and Black-naped Tern (Sterna sumatrana).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jakarta Post Breaking News] Reference

The copies by the scribes of Charlemagne went back to Mavortius and Porphyrio, the originals of which were probably discovered at Bobbio by his scholars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horace and His Influence]

At Ascension, where there is no land-bird, a rail (Porphyrio simplex) was shot near the summit of the mountain, and it was evidently a solitary straggler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XX] Reference

Porphyrio, a whale of ten cubits in breadth, and thirty in length, who was stranded at the mouth of the River Sangaris, after he had infested more than half a century the seas of Constantinople.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4] Reference

The endangered takahe (Porphyrio mantelli), little spotted kiwi (Apteryx owenii VU), stitchbird (Notiomystis cincta VU), critically endangered kakapo (Strigops habroptilus), and saddleback (Philesturnus carunculatus) have all been released on offshore islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northland temperate kauri forests] Reference

The poets of the age have celebrated the rare alliance of nature and art, the harmony of the nymphs of the groves, the fountains, and the waves: yet the crowd of attendants who followed the court complained of their inconvenient lodgings, and the nymphs were too often alarmed by the famous Porphyrio, a whale of ten cubits in breadth, and thirty in length, who was stranded at the mouth of the River.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4] Reference

Akyatan Lake, Agyatan Lake and Yumurtalik Lagoon all belong to the same system and support important species such as Marmaronetta angustirostris, black francolin (Francolinus francolinus), purple gallinule (Porphyrio Porphyrio), stone curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus), kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus), spur-winged plover (Hoplopterus spinosus), little tern (Sterna albifrons) and a high number of waterfowl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests] Reference

The endangered takahe (Porphyrio mantelli), the largest living member of the rail family, was thought to be extinct until 1948 when a few pairs were rediscovered in Fiordland’s Murchison Mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiordland temperate forests] Reference

Takahe (Porphyrio mantelli), New Zealand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiordland temperate forests] Reference

1492 dedicated to the celebrated enthusiast Pomponius Laetus an edition of the Odes, Epodes, and Secular Hymn, in which he so successfully integrated the comments of Acro, Porphyrio, Landinus, and himself, that for the next hundred years it remained the most authoritative Horace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horace and His Influence]

The Australian gray duck (Anas supercilliosia), purple swamphen (Porphyrio Porphyrio samoensis), many-colored fruit-dove (Ptilinopus perousii perousii), Samoan ground-dove (Gallicolumba stairi stairi), ma’o (Gymnomyza samoensis), and island thrush (Turdus poliocephalus samoensis) are all endangered or threatened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samoan tropical moist forests] Reference

Porphyrio bellus, Gould.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2] Reference

Porphyrio melanotus, TEMM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete] Reference

Porphyrio, who probably belonged to the 4th cent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Posted by: David | yep, I'm going to stick with the loner as being Porphyrio Porphyrio melanotus.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Porphyrio Porphyrio, Purple Swamphen.    From Wordnik.com.  [BIRDS ETCETERA] Reference

Porphyrio, 355.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Pomponius Porphyrio.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mural II] Reference

Porphyrio Porphyrio).    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

The black-backed Porphyrio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference

Pomponius Porphyrio, postera crescam laude.    From Wordnik.com.  [postera crescam laude II] Reference