Order PELECAN1F0RME8 Family 8VLIDM. 
No. 282. 
PARASULA DACTYLATRA PERSONATA. 
AUSTRALIAN MASKED OANNET. 
(Plate 227.)* 
SuLA PERSONATA Gould, Pfoc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1846, p. 21 ; Raine Island, North-east 
Australia. 
8ula personata Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1846, p. 21 ; id., Birds Austr., Vol. VII., 
pi. 77, 1846 ; Reichenbach, Synops. Natatores, pi. 54, fig. 2291, 1850 ; 
Macgillivray, Narr. Voy. “ Rattlesnake,” Vol. II., p. 369, 1852 ; Witmer Stone, 
Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 144, 1913. 
8ula cyanops (not Sundevall) Bonaparte, Consp. Gten. Av., Vol. II., p. 166, 1866 ; Schlegel, 
Mus. Pays-Bas., Vol. VI., Pelec., p. 39, 1863 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., 
p. 506, 1865 ; Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, pt. m., p. 126, 1871 (part) ; Masters, 
Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 64, 1876 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, 
p. 24, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 379, 1890 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVI., p. 430, 1898 (part) ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 102, 
1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 985, 1901 ; Tunny, Emu, Vol. I., 
p. 73, pi. ii., 1902 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 206, 1905 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., 2nd ed., p. 102, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 38, 1908 ; 
Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. X., p. 224, pis. xxvi., xxvii., 1910 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. III., p. 343, 1912 ; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 148, 1914. 
8ula dactylatra Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 9, 1911 ; Mathews, ib., p. 242, 1912. 
8ula dactylatra bedouti Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 189, 1913 ; Bedout Island, 
Mid-west Australia. 
8ula dactylatra persormta Mathews, ib. ; Mathews and Iredale, Ibis 1913, p. 417 ; Iredale, 
Trans. New Zeal. Inst., Vol. XLV., 1912, p. 86, 1913 ; Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Om. 
Club, Vol. XXXV., 1915, p. 43. 
Parasula dactylatra personata Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 99, 1913. 
Parasula dactylatra bedouti Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. North-east to North-west Australia. 
* The Plate is lettered personata. 
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