SYSTEM A AVIUM 
A U S T E A L A SIA N A R U M. 
Class AYES. 
Sub-Class DROM4EORNITHES. 
Older CASUARIIFORMES. 
Family DROMICEIID^E. 
Genus DROMICEIUS Vieillot. 
Dromiceius Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith. p. 54, 1816. Type (by 
monotypy) : Casuarius novcchollandice Latham. 
Dromiceius novaehollandiae (Latham). 
Distr. —Australia generally : except the scrub country from 
Cardwell to Lloyd’s Bay, North Queensland. Tasmania 
(extinct). 
Dromiceius novaeliollandiaB novaehollandis© (Latham). (27-586.) 
Casuarius novahollaudia Latham, Index Ornith. vol. ii. p/ 667, 
1790: Sydney, New South Wales. (Fig. T. Z. S. iv. pi. 75; Gould, 
vi. pL 1; Math. i. pi. 1.) 
Casuarius australis Shaw & Noddor, Nat. Miso. vol. iii. pi. 99, 1792 : Sydney. 
Dromaius ater Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. vol. x. p. 212, 1817 : new 
name for novsehollandim. 
Dromiceus emu Stephens in Shaw’s Gen. Zool. vol. xiv. p. 307, pi. 39, 182G 
Sydney. 
Dromaius irroratus Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 205 r interior of New South Wales. 
Dromiceus major Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. xliv. p. 70, 1924: new 
name for novsehollandise , ex Brooks, 1830. 
Distr .—Mid & South Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, 
and South Australia. 
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