Order AN8ERIF0RME8 
No. 259. 
Family ANATIDAS. 
CTENANAS EYTONI. 
PLUMED WHISTLING DUCK. 
(Plate 207.)* 
Leptotaesis EYTONI Eyton, Monogr. Anatidse, p. Ill, 1838 ; North-west Australia. 
Leptolarsis eytoni Eyton, Monogr. Anatidae, p. Ill, 1838 ; Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VII., 
pi. 15, 1845 ; Stokes, Discov. in Austr., Vol. I., pp. 419-420, App., p. 482, 1846 ; 
Leichhardt, Journ. Overl. Exped. Austr., pp. 289, 308, 423, 429, 474, 1847 ; Sturt, 
Narr. Exped. Centr. Austr., Vol. II., App., p. 57, 1849 ; Bonaparte, Comptes Bendus 
Sci. (Paris), Vol. XLIII., p. 649, 1856 ; Pelzeln, Novara Reise Vogel, p. 137, 1865 ; 
Eyton, Synops. Anatidae, p. 63, 1869 ; Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 89, 1913 ; 
id., Ibis 1914, p. 108. 
Dendrocygna eytoni Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. m., p. 132, 1844 ; id., Genera Birds, 
Vol. III., p. 612, 1845 ; Reichenbach, Synops. Av. Natatores, pi. 99, figs. 2357-8, 
1850 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1864, p. 301 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. II., p. 375, 1865 ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Anseres, p. 87, 1866 ; Sclater, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1867, p. 686; Biggies, Birds Austr., Vol. II., pi. 114, fig. 1, 1870. 
Hutton, Cat. Birds New Zeal., pp. 35, 77, 1871 ; Finsch, Journ. fiir Orn., 1874, p. 
201 ; Giebel, Thes. Ornith., Vol. II., p. 31, 1875 ; Sharpe, Zool. Erebus and Terror 
Birds, App., p. 31, 1875; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1877, p. 346; Castelnau 
and Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 386, 1877; Reichenow, Orn. 
Centralbl., 1882, p. 23 ; Buller, Man. New Zeal. Birds, p. 67, 1882 ; Legge, Papers 
Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1886, p. 244, 1887 ; Buller, Hist. New Zeal. Birds, 2nd ed., 
Vol. II., p. 268, 1888 ; North, Aust. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 340, 1890 ; Hartert, Katal. 
Vogels Mus. Senckenb., p. 229, 1891 ; North, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. XXII., 
1897, p. 60 ; Smith, Trans. New Zeal. Inst., Vol. XXIX., p. 255, 1897 ; North, Trans. 
Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXII., p. 190, 1898 ; id., Viet. Nat., Vol. XIX., p. 35, 
1902 ; Le Souef, ib., p. 68 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 205, 1905 ; Buller, 
Suppl. Birds New Zeal., Vol. II., p. 1, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 35, 1908 ; id.. Emu, Vol. X., p. 106, 1910 ; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 237, 
1912 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. IV., p. 68, 1913 ; Macgilhvray, 
Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 147, 1914. 
Dendrocygna versicolor Hartlaub, Erstr. Nachtr. Vogelsamml, p. 19, 1846 (nude name). 
* The Plate is lettered Dendrocygna eytoni. 
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