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Nyroca australis dampieri Mathews. 
Nyroca nyroca dampieri Mathews, Austral Av. R,ec. vol. i. p. 87, 
Sept. 18th, 1912: Fitzroy River, North-West Australia. 
Distr .—Northern Australia. 
Genus ERISMATURA Bp. 
Erismatura Bonaparte, Giorn. Accad. (Roma), vol. lii. p. 208, 1832: 
new name for Oxyura Bonaparte, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, 
vol. ii. p. 390, Nov. 1827. Type (by monotypy) : Anas rubida 
Wilson = Anas jama icensis Gmelin. 
Oxyura Bonaparte, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. ii. p. 390, 1828 [No¬ 
vember 1827], Type (by monotypy) : Fuligula rubida Bonaparte = A. jamai - 
censis Gmelin. Not Oxyurus Rafinesque, Oaratt. n. Gen. Anim. Sicilia, 1810. 
Qymnnra Nuttall, Manual Ornith. vol. ii. p. 425, 1834 : now name for Oxyura 
Bonaparte. 
Plectrum Gistel, Naturg. Thierr. Scliulen, p. x (pref. Easter 1847), 1848 : new 
name for Oxyura Bonaparte. 
Erismatura australis (Gould). 
Distr . —Extra-tropical Australia and Tasmania. 
Erismatura australis australis (Gould). (27-451.) 
Oxyura australis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1830, p. 85, Jan. 16th, 
1837: Swan River, West Australia. (Fig. Gould, vii. pi. 17; 
Math. pi. 217; Phillips, pi. 85.) 
Nyivcafusca Mathews, Check-list Birds Austr. pt. 2, p. v, July 26th, 1923: as 
synonym of australis , ex Cotton, Tasm. Journ. Nat. Sci. vol. iii. p. 365, 1848, 
nude name. 
Distr. —South-West Australia. 
Erismatura australis victoriae (Mathews). 
Oxyura australis victoria} Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 87, 
Sept. 18th, 1912: Victoria. 
Distr .—South-East Australia and Tasmania. 
Genus FULIGULA Steph. 
Fuligula Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool. vol. xii. pt. ii. p. 187 (late in 
1824). Type (by tautonymy and subsequent designation, Gray, 
1840, p. 75) : Anas cristata— Anas fuligula Linne. 
Fuligula fuligula (Linn6). (27-363.) 
Anas fuligula Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. vol. i. p. 128, 1758: 
Sweden, Europe. (Fig. Dresser, vi. pi. 437 ; Phillips, pi. 63.) 
(For synonyms cf, Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, ii. p. 1340, 1920.) 
Distr. — Europe, Asia to Malay Archipelago and some Pacific 
Islands (Pelew and Marianne Islands). 
