Order ANSEEIFOBMES 
No. 268. 
Family ANATIDJE, 
MALACORHYNCHUS MEMBRANACEUS. 
PINK-EARED DUCK. 
(Plate 214.)* 
Anas membeanacea Latham, Index Omith. SuppL, p. Ixix., 1801 ; New South Wales. 
New Holland D(uck) Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, SuppL, Vol. II., p. 359, 1801. 
Anas membranacea Latham, Index Omith. SuppL, p. Ixix., 1801 ; Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. 
d’Hist. Nat., Vol. V., p. 108, 1816 ; Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat. (Levrault), Vol. VI., 
p. 388, 1817 ; Vieillot, Tabl. Ency. Meth. Omith., Vol. I., p. 358, 1820. 
Anas fasciata Shaw, Nat. Miscellany, Vol. XVII., pi. 697, 1805 ; New South Wales ; 
Lesson, Traite d’Orn., p. 632, 1831. 
Membranaceous Duck, Latham, Gen. Hist. Birds, Vol. X., p. 331, 1824. 
Ehynchaspis membranacea Stephen’s in Shaw’s Gen. ZooL, Vol. XII., pt. n., p. 124, 1824. 
Malacorhynchus membranaceus Swainson, Journ. Roy. Soc. Great Brit., Vol. II., pt. rv., 
p. 18, 1831 ; Gray, List Grenera Birds, p. 74, 1840 ; id., ib., 2nd ed., p. 94, 1841 ; 
id., List Birds Brit. Mus,, pt. m., p. 139, 1844 ; id.. Genera Birds, Vol. III., p. 618, 
1845 ; Hartlaub, Syst. Verz. Ges. Mus., p. 120, 1844 ; Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. 
VII., pi. 13, 1845 ; Leichhardt, Journ. Overl. Exped. Austr., pp. 282, 319, 333, 
341, 1847 ; Stokes Discov. in Austr., Vol. I., App., p. 483, 1846 ; Reichenbach, 
Synops. Av. Natat., pi. 88, figs. 924-925, 1845 ; pi. 86, figs. 2332-3, 1850 ; Gray, 
Genera Birds, App., p. 28, 1849 ; Sturt, Narr. Exped. Centr. Austr., Vol. II., App., 
p. 56, 1849 ; Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Vogel., p. ix., 1852 ; Lichtenstein, Nomencl. 
Av. Mus. ZooL BeroL, p. 102, 1854 ; Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. (Paris), 
Vol. XLIII., p. 650, 1856 ; Ziichold, Journ. fiir Orn., 1858, p. 41 ; Gould, Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 372, 1865 ; Ramsay, Ibis 1866, p. 335 ; MuUer, Proc. 
ZooL Soc. (Lond.) 1869, p. 280 ; Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, pt. in., p. 85, 1871 ; 
Sundevall, Meth. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., p. 148, 1872 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., Vol. I., pp. 195, 216, 219, 1877 ; Castelnau and Ramsay, ib., p. 386, 
1877 ; Ramsay, ib., Vol. II., p. 200, 1877 ; Higgles, Birds Austr., Vol. II., 
pi. 113, 1877 ; Selater, Proc. ZooL Soc. (Lond.) 1880, p. 524 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N.S.W., Vol. VII., p. 58, 1882 ; Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, Water Birds, 
Vol. I., p. 525, 1884 ; Legge, Papers and Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1886, p. 244, 1887 ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p, 344, 1890 ; Heine and Reichenow, Nomencl. 
Mus. Hein., p. 347, 1890 ; Salvador!, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVII., p. 319, 
1895; North, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXII., p. 191, 1898; Hall, Key 
* The Plate is lettered Malacorhynchm assimilis. 
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