LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Class AVES. 
Sub-Class DROM^EORNITHES. 
Order CASUARIIFORMES. 
Family DROMICEIIDJE. 
I. Genus DROMICEIUS. 
Dromiceins Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith., p. 54, April 14th, 1816. Type (by monotypy) : Casuarius novce- 
hollandicB Latham. Also spelt Dromaius on p. 70. 
Tachea Fleming, Philos, of Zool., Vol. II., p. 257, June, 1822. Type (by monotypy): Casuarius novcehollandice 
Latham. 
Emou Griffith and Pigeon, Anim. Kingd., Cuvier, Vol. VIII., p. 443, “ 1829 ” [? 1830]. New name for Dromaius 
Vieillot. 
1. DROMICEIUS NOVAiHOLLANDIZE. EMU. 
Gould, Vol. VI., pi. I. (pt. xxxiii.), Dec. 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. I., pt. 1, pis. 1 and 2, 
Oct. 31st, 1910. 
Casuarius novsehollandise Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. II., p. 665, (before Dec. 9th) 1790 : Sydney, New South Wales. 
Casuarius australis Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Miscell., Vol. III., pi. 99, April 1st, 1792 : Sydney, New South Wales. 
Dromaius ater Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. X., p. 212, June 21st, 1817. New name for C. novcehollandice 
Latham. 
Dromiceus emu Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIV., p. 307, pi. 39, 1826 (late) : Sydney, New South Wales. 
Dromoeus irroratus Bartlett, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1859, p. 205, Oct. 1st : Interior of New South Wales. 
Dromoeus diemenensis Le Souef, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. XXI., p. 13, Oct. 29th, 1907 : Tasmania. 
Dromiceius novcehollandice woodwardi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 175, Jan. 31st, 1912 ; Strelley River, 
mid- West Australia. 
Dromiceius novcehollandice rothschildi Mathews, ib. : Gracefield, South-west Australia. 
Distribution. Australia : Except the scrub country from Cardwell to Lloyds Bay, North Queensland. 
[Tasmania. Extinct.] 
II. Genus PE RON I ST A. 
Peronista Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 5, p. 107, Dec. 24th, 1912. Type (by original designation): 
Dromaius peroni Rothschild. 
2. PERONISTA PERONI. DWARF EMU. 
Mathews, Vol. I., pt. 1, pis. 3 and 4 ? Oct. 31st, 1910. 
Dromaius peroni Rothschild, Extinct Birds, p. 235, pi. 40, 1907 : Kangaroo Island. 
Dromaius parvulus Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. I., pt. 1, p. 19, Oct. 31st, 1910 ; ex Gould, PemW Cyclop., Vol. 
XXIII., p. 145, 1842. Nom. nud. : Kangaroo Island. 
? Dromiceius spenceri Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 176, Jan. 31st, 1912 [King Island =••] Kangaroo 
Island. 
Distribution. Kangaroo Island, off South Australia. (Extinct. Only one skin known.) 
Family CASUARIH) JE . 
III. Genus CASUARIUS. 
Casuarius Brisson, Ornith., Vol. V., p. 10, 1760. Type (by tautonymy) : Casuarius = Struthio casuarius Linne. 
Rhea Lacepede, Tabl. Ois., p. 20, Dec., 1799. Species added by Daudin, in Hist. Nat. Bufion, ed. Didot. Quadr., Vol. 
XIV., p. 345 [1799 =] Oct., 1802. Type (by monotypy) : Rhea casuarius =Struthio casuarius Linne. 
Cassowara Perry, Arcana, pt. 21 (pi. 82), Sept. 1st, 1811. Type (by monotypy): Gassowara eximia Perry = Struthio 
casuarius Linne. 
Cela Oken, Lehrb. der Naturg., Vol. III., Zool., 2 Abth., p. 646, 1816. Type (by monotypy) : Struthio 
casuarius Linne 
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