WHITE-EYED DUCK 



NYROCA NYROCA (GuldenstXdt) 

 (Plates 60, 62) 

 Synonymy 

 Anas nyroca Guldenstadt, Nov. Coram. Petropol., vol. 14, no. 1, p. 403, 1769. 

 Anas glaucia major Gerini, Storia degli Uccelli, vol. 5, pis. 589, 590, 1776. 

 Anas rutila Latham {nee Pallas), General Synopsis Birds, vol. 3, pt. 2, p. 526, 1785. 

 Anas africana Gmelin, Linne's Systema Naturae, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 522, 1789. 

 Anas ferruginea Gmelin, Linne's Systema Naturae, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 528, 1789. 

 Anas agyptiaca Bonnaterre (nee Linne), Encyclop. Methodique, vol. 1, p. 159, 



1791. 

 Anas leucophthalmus Borkhausen, Deutsche Fauna, vol. 1, p. 564, 1797. 

 Anas leucopis Naumann, Naturges. d. Land- u. Wasservogel, vol. 3, p. 479, pi. 59, 



fig. 89, 1799. 

 Anas glaucion Pallas (nee Linne), Zoogr. Rosso-As., vol. 2, p. 268, 1811. 

 Nyroca nyroca Fleming, Philosophy of Zool., vol. 2, p. 260, 1822. 

 Aythya nyroca Boie, Oken's Isis, p. 564, 1822. 



Fuligula nyroca Stephens, General Zool., vol. 12, pt. 2, p. 201, pi. 55, 1824. 

 Fuligula ferruginea Stephens, General Zool., vol. 12, pt. 2, p. 205, 1824. 

 Platypus leucophthalmus Brehm, Lehrbuch Nat. Europ. Vbgel, vol. 2, p. 834, 1824. 

 Nyroca leucophthalmos Fleming, British Animals, p. 121, 1828. 

 Aythya leucophthalmos Brehm, Oken's Isis, p. 999, 1830. 

 Fuligula leucophthalma Gould, Birds of Europe, vol. 5, pi. 368, 1837. 

 Nyroca africana G. R. Gray, List Birds British Mus., vol. 3, p. 144, 1844. 

 Nyroca obsoleta Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 380, 1855. 

 Mthyia nyroca Goebel, Journ. f. Ornith., vol. 18, p. 182, 1870. 

 Fulix nyroca Salvadori, Faun, d'ltalia, Uccelli, p. 265, 1872. 



Nyroca ferruginea Sharpe and Dresser, Birds of Europe, vol. 6, p. 581, pi. 438, 1872. 

 Marila nyroca Seebohm, History British Birds, vol. 3, p. 570, 1885. 

 Ilyonetta nyroca Heine and Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Heineanum, p. 347, 1890. 

 Nyroca rufa Mathews and Iredale, Austral Avian Record, vol. 4, p. 153, 1921. 



Note: Mathews and Iredale (Austral Avian Record, vol. 4, p. 153, 1921) have proposed that the 

 proper name for this species is Nyroca rufa, and credit the specific name to Linne (Fauna Suecica, 

 ed. 2, p. 47, 1761). An examination of this citation shows that Linne was here using the word rufa 

 not in a specific but in a descriptive sense (since it is not italicized), just as in the case of the duck pre- 

 ceding, both of which he says were birds unknown to him. The name is, therefore, a synonym dating 

 from the later authors. 



