Order ANSERIF0RME8 
No. 258. 
Family ANATIDM. 
DENDROCYGNA JAVANIGA AUSTRALIS. 
WHISTLING DUCK. 
(Plate 206.)* 
Dendrocygna arcitata (australis) Reichenbach, Nov. Synop. Av., no. iv., p, 4, 1850 ; 
Port Essington, Northern Territory. 
Dendrocygna arcuata (not Horsfield) Gould, Birds Austr,, Vol. VII., pi. 14, 1846 ; Stokes, 
Discov. in Austr., Vol. I., App., p. 483, 1846 ; Reichenbach, Vogel. NeuhoU., p. 190, 
1851 ; Ramsay, Ibis 1865, p. 87 ; Diggles, Birds Austr., pi. 114, fig. 2, 1870 ; North, 
Viet. Nat., Vol. XIX., p. 35, 1902 ; Le Souef, ih,, p. 68 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., 
Vol. XII., p. 205, 1905 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 35, 1908 ; id., Emu, 
Vol. X., p. 106, 1910 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Gat., no. 1, Vol. IV., p. 66, 1913 ; 
MacgiUivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 147, 1914. 
Dendrocygna arcuata {australis) Reichenbach, S3mops. Av. Natat., pi. 91, figs. 2650-51, 
1850. 
Dendrocygna arcuata gouldi Bonaparte, Gomptes Rendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. XLIII., p. 649, 
1856 ; nomen. nudum. 
Dendrocygna gouldi Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 374, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1877, p. 346 ; Stone and Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., 
p. 143, 1913. 
Dendrocygna vagans Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1868, p. 388 ; Gray, Handl. Gen. 
Sp. Birds, pt. m., p. 71, 1871 (part) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., 
pp. 77, 195, 217, 386, 1876-77 ; Vol. II., p. 200, 1878 ; Vol. III., p. 301, 1878 ; 
Vol. IV., p. 102, 1879. 
Dendrocycna vagans Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1880, pp. 508-10 ; Ramsay, Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 22, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Gat., no. 12, p. 339, 1890. 
Dendrocycna, arcuata (part) Salvador!, Gat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVII., p. 153, 1895 ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 106, 1899 ; Gampbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. II., p. 1025, 1901 ; Kiilgour, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 38, 1904 ; HaU, Key Birds 
Austr., 2nd ed., p. 106, 1906 ; Bemey, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 156, 1907 ; HaU, Emu, 
Vol. IX., p. 78, 1909 ; Broadbent, ih., Vol. X., p. 245, 1910 ; HiU, ib., Vol. XII., 
p. 254, 1913. 
Dendrocygna javanica gouldi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 237, 1912 ; id.. List 
Birds Austr., p. 89, 1913 ; id., Ibis 1914, p. 107. 
* The Plate is lettered Dendrocygna gouldi. 
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