Order AN8ERIF0RME8 
No. 260. 
Family ANATIDM. 
RADJAH RADJAH RUPITERGUM. 
WHITE-HEADED SHELD-DRAKE. 
(Plate 208.)* 
Tadorna RADJAH RHFiTERGTJM Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 205, 1905 ; South 
Alligator River, Northern Territory. 
Tadorna radjah Eyton, Monogr. Anatidae, p. 106, 1838 ; Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VII., 
pi. 8, 1844 ; Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pi. iii., p. 132, 1844 ; Reichenbach, Sjmops. 
Av. Natat., pi. 93, figs. 435-6, 1845 ; Stokes, Discov. in Austr., Vol. I., App., p. 483 ; 
Vol. II., p, 58, 1846 ; Leichhardt, Journ. Overl. Exped. Austr., pp. 217, 288, 291, 
1847 ; Macgillivray, Narr. Voy. “ Rattlesnake,” Vol. II., App., p. 358, 1852 ; Lichten- 
stein, Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol, p. 101, 1854 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., 
p. 360, 1865 ; Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, pt. iii,, p. 80, 1871 (part) ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., pp. 194, 217, 386, 395, 1877 ; Vol. II., p. 200, 
1878 ; Vol. III., p. 300, 1879 ; Vol. IV., p. 102, 1879 ; Masters, ib., Vol. II., 
p. 276, 1877 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1877, p. 346 ; Sclater, ih., 
1880, p. 511, 535 (part); Diggles, Birds Austr., Vol. II., pi. Ill, 1877; Salvin, 
Cat. Birds Strickl. Coll., p. 532, 1882 ; North, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 2nd Ser., 
Vol. II., p. 446, 1887 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 22, 1888 ; Tristram, 
Cat. Coll. Birds, p. 50, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 338, 1890. 
Tadorna radjah (pt.) Salvador!, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVII., p. 175, 1895 ; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 107, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., 
p. 1029, 1901 ; North, Viet. Nat., Vol. XIX., p. 36, 1902 ; Le Souef, ib., p. 68 ; 
Le Souef, Emu, Vol. II., p. 96, 1902 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 107, 
1906 ; Broadbent, Emu, Vol. X., p. 245, 1910. 
Radjah eytoni Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Vogel., p. x., 1852 (part). 
Radja eytoni Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. XLIII., p. 649, 1856 (part). 
Anas radjah Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Vol. VI., Anseres, p. 69, 1863 (part). 
Gennoeochen radjah Heine and Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Heine Om., p. 343, 1890. 
Tadorna radjah rnfitergum Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 205, 1905 ; Mathews, ib., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 237, 1912. 
Tadorna rufitergum Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral,, p. 35, 1908 ; id., Emu, Vol. X., p, 107, 
1910 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. IV,, p. 72, 1913 ; HiU, Emu, 
Vol. XII., p. 254, 1913 ; MacgiUivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 147, 1914. 
* The Plate is lettered Tadorna rufitergum. 
