LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
CLXXIIL Genus ERISMATURA. 
Erismatura Bonaparte, Giorn. Arcad. (Roma), Vol. LII., p. 208, 1832. New name for Oxyura Bonaparte, not 
Oxyurus R[annesque]. Type (by monotypy) : Anas jamaicensis Gmelin. 
Oxyura Bonaparte, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, Vol. II., p. 390, 1828 [November 1827]. Type (by mono- 
typy) : Fuhgula rubida Bonaparte = A. jamaicensis Gmelin. 
Not Oxyurus Swainson, Zool. Jour., Vol. III., p . 354, 1827, Aug.-Nov. = Dec. 31st. 
Gymnura Nuttall, Manual Ornith., Vol. II., p. 425, 1834. New name for Oxyura Bonaparte. 
Plectrura Gistel, Naturg. Thierr. Schulen, p. x. (pref. Easter 1847) 1848. New name for Oxyura Bonaparte. 
192. ERISMATURA AUSTRALIS. BLUE-BILLED DUCK. 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. 17 (pt. xvi.), Sept. 1st, 1844. Mathews, Vol. IV., pt. 2, pi. 217, Feb. 
27th, 1915. v 1 
Oxyura australis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1836, p. 85, Jan. 16th, 1837 : Swan River, West Australia. 
Oxyura australis victorim Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 87, Sept. 18th, 1912 : Victoria. 
Distribution. Extra-tropical Australia and Tasmania. 
CLXXIV. Genus BIZIURA. 
Biziura Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XII., pt. n., p. 221, 1824 (ex Leach MS.). Type (by monotypy) : 
Anas lobata, Shaw and Nodder. 
Hydrobates Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois., 68e livr. (Vol. IV., pi. 406) (Vol. V., pi. 117), Sept. 16th, 
1826. Type (by monotypy) : A. lobata Shaw and Nodder. 
Not of Boie, Isis, heft v., col. 562, 1822. 
Hina Gray, List Genera Birds, 2nd ed., p. 96, Sept. 1841, ex Leach MS. In synonymy. 
Pileata Brown, Illus. Genera Birds, No. VII., Oct. 1845, sig. w (2). In synonymy. 
193. BIZIURA LOBATA. MUSK DUCK. 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. 18 (pt. xvi.), Sept. 1st, 1844. Mathews, Vol. IV., pt. 2, pi. 218, Feb. 
27th, 1915. 
Anas lobata Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Miscell., Vol. VIII., pi. 255, Sept. 1796 : [King George’s Sound], West Australia. 
Anas carunculata Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. V., p. 109, Dec. 14th, 1816. New name for A. lobata 
Shaw and Nodder. 
Not Anas carunctdata “ Illiger ” Licht., Abhandl. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, Phys. Klasse, p. 176, 1816-17, 1819. 
Biziura novcehollandice Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XII., pt. ii., p. 222, 1824. New name for A. lobata 
Shaw and Nodder. 
Biziura lobata westralis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 87, Sept. 18th, 1912 : Herdsman’s Lake, South- 
west Australia. 
Biziuralobata menziesi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 5, p. 90, Sept. 24th, 1914 : New South Wales. 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tasmania. 
Order PELECANIFORMES. 
Family PHALACROCORACIDA. 
CLXXV. Genus PH ABAC ROC OR AX. 
Pfaalaerocorax Brisson, Ornith., Vol. I., p, 60, Vol. VI., p. 511, 1760. Type (by tautonymy) ; Phalacrocorax = 
Pelecanus carbo Linne. 
Garbo Lacepede, Tabl. Ois., p. 15, Dec. 1799. Species added by Daudin in Hist. Nat. Buffon, ed. Didot, Quadr., 
Vol. XIV., p. 318 [1799] = Oet. 1802. Type (by tautonymy) : Garbo vulgaris=P. carbo Linne, 
Halieus Illiger, Prodr. Mamm. et Av., p. 279, (pref. April) 1811. New name for preceding. 
Garbonarius Rafinesque, Analyse de la Nature, p. 72, 1815. New name for “ Garbo Lac.”=Lacepede, c/. Auk, 
Vol. 26, p. 50, Jan. 1909. 
Hydrocorax Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith., p. 63, April 14th, 1816. Type (by monotypy) : Cormoran=P. carbo 
Linne. 
Not Hydrocorax Brisson, Ornith., Vol. IV., p. 566, 1760. 
Gormoranus Baillon, Mem. Soc. Roy. Abbeville, p 76, 1833 [1834]. Type (by subsequent designation, 
Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 95, 1913) •• P. carbo Linne, 
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