LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Ardea poiciloptila Wagler, Syst.. Av. Ardea, sp. 28, note p. (185), Oct. 1827 : Now South Wales. 
Botaurua australis Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxx. (Vol. VI., pi. 64), March 1st, 1848 : New South Wales. 
Botauriut poiciloptilus xcestralcnsis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XV1I1., p. 235, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Shark’s Bay, West 
Australia. 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tamania. 
Order ANATIFORMES. 
Family ANATID.E. 
CLVIII. Genus CHENOPIS. 
Chenopis Wagler, Tsis, 1832, lieft xi., col. 1234, Nov. Type (by monotypy): Anas atrata Latham. 
175. CHENOPIS ATRATA. BLACK SWAN. 
Gould, Vol. VH., pi. 6 (pt. xx.), Sept. 1st, 1845. Mathews, Vol. IV., pt. 1, pi. 200, Oct. 6th, 
1914. 
Anas atrata Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. II., p. 834, 1790 (before Dec. 9th) : New South Wales. 
Anser nov(thol/andiw Bonnaterre, Tabl. Eney. M6th. Ornith., Vol. I., p. 108, 1791 : New South Wales. 
Anas plutonia Shaw and Noddor, 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 melanoleaca Latham 
==A. semipalmata Latham. 
Choristopus Eyton, Monogr. Anatid®, 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. VH., 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. 
Ana# 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.) 
CLX. Genus CHENISCUS. 
Cheniscus Eyton, Monogr. Anatid®, p. 15, April 1838. Type (by original designation): Anas coromandeliana 
Gmelin. 
t Cheniscus Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIV., pt. i., p. 344, 1826 (end), ex Brookes MS. Nomen nudum. 
Anserella Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. II., p. 189, July 1st, 1837. Nom . 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 1S40, p. 73. Type (by original designation) : A. coromandeliana Gmelin. 
177. CHENISCUS COROMANDELIANUS. WHITE-QUILLED GOOSE TEAL. 
[Ana# coromandeliana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 522, April 20th, 1789: Coromandel, India. Extra- 
limital.J 
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