LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
CLXIII. Genus DENDROCYGNA. 
Dendrocygna Swainson, Clossif. Birds, Vol. II., p. 365, July 1st, 1837. Typo (by monotypy): Anas arcuata 
Horsfield=Ana.* javanica Horsfield. 
Dendroncssa Waglor, Isis, 1832, heft 3, col. 281, March. Typo (by subsequent designation of Sclater and 
Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1876, p. 372) : A. arcuata = A. javanica Horsfield. 
Not of Swainson, Fauna Bor. Americ. Zool., p. 497, Feb. 1832. 
181. DENDROCYGNA JAVANICA. WHISTLING DUCK. 
[Anas javanica Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soe. (Lond.), Vol. XIII., pt. i., p. 200, 1821 : Java. Extra-limital.] 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. 14 (pt. xxxiii.), Dec. 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. IV., pt. 1, pi. 206, Oct. 
6th, 1914. 
Dendrocygna arcuata (australis) Reiclionbaeh, Nov. Synops. Av., No. IV., p. 4, 1850, based on Gould's plate: 
Port. Essington, Northern Territory’. 
Dendrocygna gouldi Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 374, (Dec.) 1805 (ex Eyton MS.): Port Essington, 
Northern Territory. 
Dendrocygna javanica peroni Mathews, Austral Av. Bee., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 86, Sept. 18th, 1912: Fitzroy River, 
North-west Australia. 
Distribution. Australia generally, rarer in the south. 
CLXIV. Genus CTENANAS. 
Ctenanas Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II.,pt. o,p. 90, Sept. 24th, 1914. New name for Leptotarsis Eyton 1838. 
Typo (by monotypy): Lcptotarsis cytoni Eyton. 
Leptotarsis Eyton, Monogr. Anatida?, pp. 29, 111, June 1838. Typo (by monotypy) : L. cytoni Eyton. 
Not Leptotarsus Guerin, Voy. Coquille, Zool., Vol. II., p. 286, 1831. 
182. CTENANAS EYTONI. PLUMED WHISTLING DUCK. 
Gould, Vol. VII.. pi. 15 (pt. xx.), Sept. 1st, 1845. Mathews, Vol. IV., pt. 1, pi. 207, Oct, 
6th, 1914. 
Leptotarsis eyioni Eyton, Monogr. Anat., p. Ill, June 1838, ex Gould MS. : North-west Australia. 
Dendrocygna versicolor Hartlaub, Erster Nachtr. Vogelsamml., p. 19, 1846. Nom. nudum, 
Dendrocygna cytoni mitnna Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 86. Sept. 18th, 1912: Dawson River, 
Queensland. 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tasmania. 
CLXV. Genus RADJAH. 
Radjah Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Vogel, p. x., 1852 (? 1853). Type (by original designation): Anas radjali 
Gould = Tadoma radjah ru/itergum Hartert. 
Gennceochen Heine und Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Hein., p. 343, (pref. Sept.) 1890. New name for Radjah 
Reichenbach. 
183. RADJAH RADJAH. WHITE-HEADED SHELD-DRAKE. 
[Anas radjah Gamut, Voy, la Coquille, Zool., livr. 8, pi. 49, p. 303, Nov. 29th, 1828 : Bern. Extra-limital.] 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. 8 (pt. xiv.), March 1st, 1844. Mathews, Vol. IV., pt. 1, pi. 208, Oct. 
6th, 1914. 
Tadoma radjah rufilergum Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 205, June 1905 : South Alligator River, Northern 
Territory. 
Tadoma radjah flindersi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 86, Sept. 18th, 1912 : Cooktown, Queensland. 
Distribution. Tropical Northern Australia. 
CLXVI. Genus GAS ARC A. 
Casarca Bonaparte, Comp. Geog. List Birds Europe and N. Amer., p. 56, April 14th, 1838. Type (by monotypy) : 
Anas rutila Pallas =Anas ferruginca Vroeg. 
Nettalopex Heine und Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Hein., p. 343, (pref. Sept.) 1890. New name for Casarca 
Bonaparte. 
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