Order AN8ERIF0RMES 
No. 261. 
Family ANATIDM. 
CASARCA TADORNOIDES. 
MOUNTAIN DUCK. 
(Plate 209.) 
Anas tadornoidbs Jardine and Selby, Ulus. Ornith., Vol. II., pi. Ixii., 1828 ; New South 
Wales. 
New Holland Shieldrake Latham, Gen. Hist. Birds, Vol. X., p. 306, 1824. 
Anas tadornoides Jardine and Selby, Ulus. Ornith., Vol. II., pi. Ixii., 1828 ; Lafresnaye, 
Mag. Zool. Ois., 1836, text to pi. 36 ; Lesson, Compl. de Buff. Ois., Vol. IX., p. .534, 
1837 ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Vol. VI., Anseres, p. 65, 1866 ; Giebel, Thes. 
Ornith., Vol. I., p. 364, 1872. 
Anas kasarlcoides Lafresnaye, Mag. de Zool., text to pi. 36, 1836 (New South Wales). 
CasarJca tadornoides Eyton, Monogr. Anatidse, p. 107, 1838 ; id., Synops. Anatidee, p, 58, 
1869. 
Casarca tadornoides Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VII., pi. 7, 1844 ; Gray, List Birds Brit. 
Mus., pt. III., p. 133, 1844 ; id., Genera Birds, Vol. III., p. 613, 1845 ; Reichenbach, 
Synops. Av. Natatores, pi. 93, figs. 428-430, 1845 ; Stokes, Discov. in Austral., 
Vol. I., App., p. 483, 1846 ; Sturt, Narr. Exped. Cent. Austr., Vol. II., App., p. 55, 
1849 ; Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. Mus. Zool. Berol., p. 101, 1854 ; Bonaparte, 
Comptes Rendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. XLIII., p. 649, 1856 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
(Lond.) 1862, p. 185 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 361, 1865 ; Gray, 
Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, pt. m., p. 80, 1871 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. I., pp. 195, 219, 1877 ; Vol. II., p. 200, 1878 ; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 22, 
1888 ; Blaauw, Ibis 1894, p. 317 ; Salvador!, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVII., 
p. 185, 1895 ; North, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXII., p. 190, 1898 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 1030, 1901 ; Littler, Emu, 
Vol. III., p. 216, 1904 ; Milligan, ih., Vol. IV., p. 11, 1904 ; M’Clymont, ih., Vol. V., 
p. 162, 1906 ; Batey, ib., Vol. VII., p. 15, 1907 ; Hill, ih., p. 23 ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 35, 1908 ; HaU, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 79, 1909 ; Crossman, ih., p. 86 ; 
Whitlock, ih., p. 190, 1910 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 218, 1910 ; Ogilvie- 
Grant, Ibis 1910, p. 174 ; Orton and Sandland, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 76, 1913 ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat,, no. 1, Vol. IV., p. 70, 1913 ; Mathews, List Birds 
Austr., p. 90, 1913. 
Tadorna tadornoides Hartlaub, Syst. Verz. Ges. Mus., p. 118, 1844; Sclater, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.) 1864, p, 191, pi. xviii., id., ih., 1880, p. 512 ; Legge, Papers Proc. 
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