Order ANSERIF0RME8 
No. 270. 
Family AN AT I DM. 
NYEOCA AUSTRALIS. 
WHITE-EYED DUCK. 
(Plate 216.) 
Nyroca australis Eyton, Monogr. Anatidse, p. 160, 1838 ; New South Wales. 
Nyroca australis Eyton, Monogr. Anatidee, p. 160, 1838 ; Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. 
III., p. 144, 1844 ; id., Genera Birds, Vol. III., p. 621, 1845 ; Gould, Birds Austr., 
Vol. VII., pi. 16, 1847 ; Reichenbach, Synops. Av. Natat., pi. 79, figs. 2326-7, 
1850 ; Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. Mus. Zool. Berol., p. 102, 1854 ; Bonaparte, 
Comptes Rendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. XLIII., p. 651, 1856 ; Gould, Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. II., p. 377, 1865 ; Ramsay, Ibis 1867, p. 414 ; Muller, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
(Bond.) 1869, p. 280 ; Hutton, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 1869, Vol. II., p. 78, 1870 ; 
Buller, Ibis 1870, p. 459 ; Hutton, ib., p. 395 ; id., Cat. Birds New Zeal., p. 38, 
1871; Finsch, Journ. fiir Orn. 1872, p. 188; id., ib., 1874, p. 202; Buller, 
Hist. Birds New Zeal., p. 257, 1873; Sharpe, Voy. “Erebus” and “Terror” 
Birds, p. 31, 1875 ; Biggies, Birds Austr., Vol. II., pi. 116, 1877 ; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., pp. 195, 216, 219, 1877 ; id., ib., Vol. II., p. 200, 1878 ; 
id., ib., Vol. III., p. 154, 1878 ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1877, p. 347 ; Castelnau 
and Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 386, 1877 ; Buller, Manual Birds 
New Zeal., p. 72, 1882 ; id.. Hist. Birds New Zeal., 2nd ed., Vol. II., p. 275, 1888 ; 
Ramsay, Tab. List. Austr. Birds, p. 22, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, 
p. 345, 1889; Buller, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 1892, Vol. XXV., p. 63, 1893; Salvador!, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVII., p. 350, 1895 ; North, Trans. Roy. Soc. South 
Austr., Vol. XXII., p. 191, 1898 ; Hall, Eey Birds Austr., p. 108, 1899 ; Canapbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 1050, 1901 ; Carter, Emu, Vol. III., 
p. 212, 1904; Hill, ib., p. 229, 1904; Milligan, ib., Vol. IV., p. 11, 1904; Legge, 
ib., p. 108, 1905 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 206, 1905 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., 2nd ed., p. 108, 1906 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 157, 1907 ; Batey, ib., 
Vol. VII., p. 14, 1907 ; Austin, ib., p. 79, 1907 ; Broadbent, ib., Vol. X., p. 245, 
1910 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 226, 1910 ; Stone, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 121, 
1912 ; White, ib., p. 183, 1913 ; Mathews and Iredale, Ibis 1913, p. 409 ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1., Vol. IV., p. 90, 1913 ; Mathews, List Birds Austr., 
p. 93, 1913 ; White, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 23, 1913 ; Orton and Sandland, Emu, 
Vol. XIII., p. 76, 1913 ; White, ib., p. 124, 1914 ; Macgillivray, ib., p. 147, 1914 ; 
Barnard, ib., p. 209, 1914 ; id., ib., Vol. XIV., p. 41, 1914. 
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