Order AN8ERIF0RME8 
No. 255, 
Family ANATIDM. 
CHENISCUS PULCHELLUS. 
GREEN GOOSE-TEAL. 
(Plate 203.)* 
Nettapus PULCHELLUS Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1841, p. 89 ; Port Essington, 
Northern Territory. 
Nettapus pulchellus Gould, Proc. Zqol. Soc. (Lond.), 1841, p. 89 ; id., Birds Austr., Vol. 
VII., pL 4, 1842 ; Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. III., p. 608, 1844 ; Reichenbach, 
Synops. Av. Natat., pi. 96, figs. 938-939, 1845 ; Stokes, Discov. in Austr., Vol. I., 
p. 483, 1846 ; Blyth, Cat. Bircfe Mus. As. Soc. Bengal, p. 302, 1852 ; Bonaparte, 
Comptes Bendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. XLIII., p. 649, 1856 ; Elsey, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
(Lond.), 1857, p. 28 ; Gray, ib., 1858, p. 198 ; id., Cat. Birds New Guin., p. 63, 
1859 ; Finsch, New Guinea, p. 183, 1865 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., 
p. 357, 1865 ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Anseres, Vol. VI., p. 77, 1866 ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1868, p. 388 ; Eyton, Synops. Anat., p. 37, 1869 ; Giebel, 
Thes. Ornith., Vol. II., p. 701, 1875 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., 
pp. 194, 386, 1877 ; Vol. II., p. 200, 1878 ; Masters, ib., p. 276, 1878 ; D’Albertis, 
Ibis 1877, p. 372 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond,), 1877, p. 346 ; Sclater, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1883, pp. 52, 200 ; Finsch, V5gel. Siid-See, p. 29, 1884 ; Forbes, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1884, p. 434 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 22, 
1888 ; Salvador!, Agg. Om. Papua, e Mol],, p. 210, 1891 ; North, Trans. Roy. 
Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXII., p. 189, 1898 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., 
p. 236, 1912 ; Van Oort, Nova Guinea, Vol. IX., Zool,, p. 55, 1909 ; Macgillivray, 
Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 146, 1914 ; Barnard, ib., Vol, XIV,, p. 41, 1914. 
Nettapus {Anserella) pulchellus Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, pt. in., p. 77, 1871. 
Nettopus 'pulchellus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc, (Lond.), 1880, p. 505 ; Salvador!, Ann. Mus. 
Civ. Genov., Vol. XVIII., p. 400, 1882 ; id., Orn. Papua, e Moll., Vol. III., p. 384, 
1882 ; id.. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVII., p. 67, 1895 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 106, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 1019, 1901 ; 
Kilgour, Emu, Vol. IV., pp. 38, 42, 1904 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 106, 
1906 ; Bemey, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 156, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 34, 1908 ; Ingram, Ibis 1908, p. 464 ; Sassi, Journ. fur Ornith., 1909, p. 383 ; 
Mathews, Emu, Vol. X., p. 106, 1910 ; Broadbent, ib., p. 245 ; Hill, ib., Vol. XII., 
p. 254, 1913 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. IV., p. 58, 1913. 
* The Plate is lettered Nettapus pvichellus. 
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