LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Ardea poiciloptila Wagler, Syst. Av. Ardea, sp. 28, note p. (185), Oct. 1827 : New South Wales. 
Botaurus australis Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxx. (Vol. VI., pi. 64), March 1st, 1848 : New South Wales. 
Botaurus poiciloptilus westralensis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 235, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Shark s Bay, West 
Australia. 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tamania. 
Order ANATIFORMES. 
Family ANATID.E. 
CL VIII. Genus CHENOPIS. 
Chenopis Wagler, Isis, 1832, heft xi., col. 1234, Nov. Type (by monotypy) : Anas atrata Latham. 
175. CHENOPIS ATRATA. BLACK SWAN. 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. 6 (pt. xx.), Sept. 1st, 1845. Mathews, Vol. IV., pt. I, pi. 200, Oct. 6th, 
1914. 
Anas atrata Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. II., p. 834, 1790 (before Dec. 9th) : New South Wales. 
Anser novcehollandice Bonnaterre, Tabl. Ency. Meth. Ornith., Vol. I., p. 108, 1791 : New South Wales. 
Anas plutonia Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Miscell., Vol. III., pi. 108, July 1st, 1792 : New South Wales. 
Anas cygnus niger Perry, Arcana, pt. 15, pi. [59], March 1st, 1811 : New South Wales. 
Chenopis atrata roberti Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 446, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Augusta, South-west Australia. 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tasmania. 
CLIX. Genus ANSERANAS. 
Anseranas Lesson, Manuel d’Orn., Vol. II., p. 418, June 1828. Type (by monotypy) : Anas melanoleuca Latham 
— A. semipalmata Latham. 
Choristopus Eyton, Monogr. Anatidse, p. 8 (April) 1838 : Type (by original designation) : Anas semipalmata 
Latham. 
Chenogeranus Brown, Illus. Gen. Birds, No. V., Aug. 1848, sign, u 2. In synonymy. 
176. ANSERANAS SEMIPALMATA. PIED GOOSE. 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. 2 (pt. xxxii.), Sept. 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. IV., pt. 1, pi. 201, 
Oct. 6th, 1914. 
Anas semipalmata Latham, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. IV., p. 103, before May 24th, 1798 : Hawkesbury 
River, New South Wales. 
Anas melanoleuca Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. lxix., after May, 1801 : New South Wales. 
Anseranas semipalmata hamiltoni Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 85, Sept. 18th, 1912: Parry’s 
Creek, North-west Australia. 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tasmania. (New Guinea, cf. Ibis, 1915 (Dec.), Suppl., p. 273.) 
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CLX. Genus CHEN I SOUS. 
Chenisetis Eyton, Monogr. Anatidse, p. 15, April 1838. Type (by original designation) : Anas coromandeliana 
Gmelin. 
• Cheniscus Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIV., pt. i„ p. 344, 1826 (end), ex Brookes MS. Nomen nudum. 
Anser ell a Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. II., p. 189, July 1st, 1837. Norn, nudum. 
Anserella Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 122, Oct. 1855. Type (by original designation) : A. coromandeliana 
Gmelin. 
Not of Selby, Cat. Gen. Subgen., Aves, p. 47, 1840. 
Microcygna Gray, List Gen. Birds, April 1840, p. 73. Type (by original designation) : A. coromandeliana Gmelin. 
177. CHENISCUS COROMANDELIANUS. WHITE-QUILLED GOOSE TEAL. 
[Anas coromandeliana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 522, April 20th, 1789: Coromandel, India. Extra- 
limital.] 
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