THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
hollow limbs of trees during the months of December and January. It is 
a common species all over Queensland north of the Mary River. I have 
received specimens from Port Denison and Rockingham Bay, and also 
examined specimens from Port Moresby, in New Guinea. The Port 
Moresby birds have a much narrower pectoral band than is found in the 
Australian examples I have seen.” 
Salvador! {Gat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVII., p. 176, 1895) commented : 
“ Australian specimens are larger, and have the back much more chestnut 
than those from the Moluccas and Papuan Islands.” 
This was followed up in 1905 by Hartert {Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 205), 
who upon comparison named the Australian bird Tadorna radjah rufitergum, 
writing : “ Comparing the Australian specimens with our large series from 
the Moluccan Islands and New Guinea, Mr. Rothschild and I found that the 
former differ strikingly from the latter (i.e. typical radjah) by their chestnut 
or dark chestnut instead of brownish-black upper back. Count Salvador! 
has already drawn attention to the differences of Australian specimens, but 
has not given a name to them. The larger size of the Australian bird is 
not constant in a series, though generally noticeable.” 
In my List Birds Austr., p. 90, 1913, I gave the type of Radjah as “ Anas 
radjah Gould = Tadorna radjah rufitergu7n Hartert.” This is not correct. 
Reichenbach gave the type as Radjah eytoni and quoted figures : these figures 
are eopies of Gould’s plate and one other ; the other does not represent an 
Australian bird, and consequently Radjah eytoni is simply a new substitute 
for Anas radjah Garnot as a whole ; Reichenbach did not differentiate 
the Australian bird though his figures show the differences vividly ; had 
he done so his name would long have anticipated that of Hartert. 
The bird figured and described is a male collected on Parry’s Creek, 
North-west Australia, on the 12th February, 1909, by Mr. J. P. Rogers. 
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