Order AN8EBIF0BME8 
No. 252. 
Family ANATID^. 
CHENOPIS ATRATA. 
BLACK SWAN. 
(Plate 200.) 
Anas ateata Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. II,, p, 834, 1790 ; New South Wales. 
Black Swan (Lister), Philos. Trans. Lond., Vol. XX., p. 361, 1698 ; Phillip, Voy. Botany 
Bay, p. 98, 1789 ; Vancouver, Voy. Disc. North Pacific Ocean, Vol. I., pp. 38, 52, 
1798; LabiUardiere, Voy. in Search of La Perouse, Engl, ed., Vol. I., p. 173, pi. ix., 
1800 ; Latham, Gen. Synops. Suppl., Vol. II., p. 343, 1801 ; id., Gen. History Birds, 
Vol. X., p. 224, 1824. 
Anas atrata Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. II., p. 834, 1790 ; Ranzani, Elem. di Zool., 
Vol, III., pt. IX., p. 97, 1826 ; Yarrell, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond,), Vol, XV., p. 382, 
pi. xii. (trachea), 1827. 
Anser novcehollandice Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encyc, Meth. Ornith., Vol. I,, p. 108, 1791 (New 
South Wales). 
Anas plutonia Shaw and Nodder, Naturahsts’ Miscellany, Vol. III., pi. 108, 1792 (New 
South Wales) ; Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Vol. I., p. 400, 1826. 
Cygnus atratus VieiUot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol, IX., p. 39, 1817 ; Dumont, Diet. 
Sci. Nat. (Levrault), Vol. XII,, p. 314, 1818 ; Stephens in Shaw’s Gen, Zool., Vol. XII., 
pt. n., p. 18, pi. 39, 1824; VieiUot, Galerie d’Oiseaux, Vol. II,, p. 215, pi. 286, 1825; 
Yarrell, Zool. Journ., Vol. IV., p. 321, 1828; Lesson, Manuel d’Orn., Vol, II., p. 407, 
1828 ; id., Traite d’Orn., p. 629, pi. 48, fig. 1, 1831 ; Bennett, Gardens and Menag. 
Zool. Soo. Birds, p. 45, cum. fig., 1831 ; Heron, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1835, 
p. 107 ; Lesson, Compl. de Buffon, Ois., Vol, IX., p. 529, 1837 ; Lesson, Revue 
Zool., 1839, p. 323 ; Ruppell, Mus. Senckenb., Vol. III., p. 9, 1839 ; Gray, Genera 
Birds, Vol. III., p. 610, 1844; Hartlaub, Syst. Verz. Ges. Mus., p. 118, 1844; 
Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VIL, pi. 6, 1845 ; Stokes, Discov. in Austr., Vol. I., p, 482, 
1846 ; Sturt, Narr. Exped. Centr. Austr,, Vol. II., App., p. 55, 1849 ; Reichenbach, 
Synops, Av. Natatores, pi. 105, figs. 251-252 ; pi. 107, fig. 2362, 1850 ; Lichtenstein, 
Nomencl. Av. Mus. Zool. Berol., p. 101, 1854; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1859, 
p. 206 ; Crisp, ib., p. 258, 1860 ; id., ib., 1862, p. 142 ; Bennett, Gath. Nat. Austral., 
p. 238, 1860 ; Schlegel, Mus, Pays-Bas, Anseres, Vol. VI., p. 80, 1866 ; Muller, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1869, p. 280 ; Sclater, ib., p. 629 ; Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. 
Birds, pt. III., p. 78, 1871 ; Giebel, Thes, Ornith., Vol. I., p. 855, 1872 ; Pelzeln, 
Ibis 1873, p. 46 ; Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 348 ; Gulliver, ib., p. 488 ; 
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