Order AN8ERIF0RME8 
No. 272. 
Family ANATIDJE. 
BIZIUEA LOBATA LOBATA. 
WESTERN MUSK DUCK. 
(Plate 218.)* 
Anas lobata Shaw and Nodder, Naturalists’ Miscellany, Vol. VIII., pi. 255, 1796 ; 
King George’s Sound, West Australia. 
Anas lobata Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Miscell., Vol. VIII., pi. 255, 1796 ; Dumont, Diet. 
Sci. Nat. (Levrault), Vol. VI., p. 387, 1817 ; Lesson, Traite d’Orn., p. 630, 1831. 
Lobated Duck Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds Suppl., Vol. II., p. 349, 1801. 
Anas carunculata (not lUiger 1811) VieiUot, Nouv. Diet, d’Hist. Nat., Vol. V., p. 109, 1816 
(West Australia) ; id., Tabl. Ency. Meth. Om., Vol. I., p. 356, pi. 236, fig. 2, 1820. 
Biziura novdehollandios Stephens in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XII., pt. ii., p. 222, fig. in 
frontispiece 1824 (West Australia). 
Hydrobates lobatus Temminek and Laugier, Plan. Color d’Ois., 68® livr., Vol. IV., pi. 406, 
1826 ; Lesson, Manuel d’Orn., Vol. II., p. 414, 1828 ; Breton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
(Lond.) 1834, p. 19 ; Lesson, Compl. de Buff. Ois., Vol. IX., p. 529, 1837. 
Hygrobates lobatus Lichtenstein, Verz. samml. Neuholl., p. 6, 1837. 
Biziura lobata Eyton, Monogr. Anatidse, p. 168, 1838 ; Gray, List Genera Birds, p. 75, 
1840 ; id., ib., 2nd ed., p. 96, 1841 ; id.. List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. iii., p. 145, 1844 ; 
id.. Genera Birds, Vol. III., p. 627, 1844 ; Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VII., pi. 18, 
1844 (part) ; Reichenbach, Synops. Av. Natat., pi. 81, figs. 145-6 and 904, 1845 ; 
Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. XLIII., p. 652, 1856 ; Gould, Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 381, 1865 (part) ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Anseres, Vol. 
VI., p. 7, 1866 ; Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, pt. m., p. 90, 1871 ; Giebel, Thes. 
Ornith., Vol. I., p. 467, 1872 ; Sundevall, Meth. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., p. 150, 18^ ; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 200, 1878 (part) ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.) 1880, pp. 529, 535 ; id., ib., 1882, p. 311 ; Eorbes, ib., pp. 455-8 ; 
Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 22, 1888 (part) ; Heine and Reichenow, 
NomencL Mus. Hein. Orn., p. 349, 1890 (part) ; Salvador!, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. XXVII., p. 452, 1895 (part) ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 108, 1899 (part) ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 1053, 1901 (part) ; Carter, 
Emu, Vol. III., p. 212, 1904 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 108, 1906 
(part) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 37, 1908 (part ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 
1910, p. 173 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 240, 1912 (part) ; North, 
* The Plate is lettered Biziura westralis. 
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