Order AN8EBIF0BMES 
No. 254. 
FamUy ANATIDM, 
CHENISCUS COROMANDELIANUS ALBIPEISTNIS. 
WHITE-QUILLED GOOSE-TEAL. 
” ' ’ (Pl^TE 202.)* 
Nettapxjs AiiBiPENNis Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VII., text to pi. 5, 1842 ; Moreton Bay, 
Queensland. 
NeUa'pus coromandelianus Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VII., pi. 5, -1842 ; Gray, Genera Birds, 
Vol. III., p. 608, 1844 (part). 
Nettapus albipennis Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VII., text to pi. 5, 1842 ; id.. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., Introd., p. xci., 1848 ; id., Introd. Birds Austr., 8vo., p. 107, 1848 ; 
Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. XLIII., p. 649, 1856 ; Gould, Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 359, 1865 ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Anseres, Vol. VI., p. 77, 
1866 ; Blyth, Ibis 1866, p. 350 (note) ; Pelzeln, Ibis 1873, p. 122 ; Giebel, Thes. 
Ornith., Vol. II., p. 701, 1875 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1877, p. 346 ; id., 
Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 200, 1878 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, 
p. 22, 1888 ; Salvador!, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVII., p. 72, 1895 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 106, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 1020, 
1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 106, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 34, 1908 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. IV., p. 59, 1913. 
Nettapus hicolor Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant, 11th year, no. 6, col. 127, July 21, 
1844 (Queensland) ; id., Desc. Mamm. et d’Ois., p. 245, 1847 ; Menegaux (reprint 
of Lesson 1844), Art. d’Om., p. 149, 1913. 
Nettapus corom. albipenis Reichenbach, Synops. Av. Natatores, pi. 96, figs. 936-37, 1845. 
Nettapus {Anserella) albipennis Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, pt. ni., p. 77, 1871. a 
Nettapus coromandelicus Giebel, Thes. Omith., Vol. II., p. 701, 1875 (part). ' 
Anserella albipennis Reichenow, Ornith. Centralbl., 1882, p. 22. 
Nettapus coromandelianus albipennis Hartert, Katal. Vogels Mus. Senckenb., p. 228, 1891 ; 
Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 236, 1912. 
Gheniscus coromandelianus albipennis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 87, 1913. 
Bisteibution. Queensland ; northern New South Wales. 
Adult male. Back and scapulars glossy-green, with a bronzy tinge ; wings bright 
glossy-green, some of the median-coverts tinged with purple ; primary-quills 
dark brown, glossed with green and broadly banded with white, some of the 
inner short primaries only tipped with white like the secondaries, the long 
* The Plate is lettered Nettapus albipemiis. 
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