LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
CLXXIII. Genus ERISMATURA. 
Erismatura Bonaparte, Giom. Arcad. (Roma), Vol. LII., p. 208, 1832. New name for Oxyura Bonaparte, not 
Oxyurns Rfafinesque]. 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) : Fuligula rubtda Bonaparte = A. jatnaicensis Gmelin. 
Not Oxyurus Swainson, Zool. Jour., Vol. III., p. 354, 1827, Aug .-No v.= Dec. 31st. 
Gymnura Nuttall, Manual Ornitli., Vol. II., p. 425, 1834. New name for Oxyura Bonaparte. 
Plectrura Gistel, Naturg. Thierr. Sehulen, p. x. (prof. 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. 
Oxyura australis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1836, p. 85, Jan. 16th, 1837 : Swan River, West Australia. 
Oxyura australis victories Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 87, Sept. 18tli, 1912 : Victoria. 
Distribution. Extra-tropical Australia and Tasmania. 
CLXXIV. Genus BIZI UR A, 
Biziura Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XII., pt. n. f p. 221, 1824 (ex Leach MS.). Type (by monotypy); 
Anas lobata, Shaw and Nodder. 
Hydrobates Temminek 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, ox Leach MS. In synonymy. 
Pileata Brown, Ulus. Genera Birds, No. VTI., 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’Hiat. Nat., Vol.V., p. 109, Dec. 14tli, 1816. New name for A. lobata 
Shaw and Nodder. 
Not Anas carunculata “ Illiger ” Licht., Abhandl. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, Phys. Klasse, p. 176,1816-17,1819. 
Biziura novcchollanduv Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool., Vol. XII., pt. u., p. 222, 1824. New name for A. lobata 
Shaw and Nodder. 
Biziura lobata westralis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I. f 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 PH AL ACR O COR ACID Ai. 
CLXXV. Genus PUALACROCORAX . 
Phalacrocorax Brisson, Ornith., Vol. I., p. 60, Vol. VI., p. 511, 1760. Type (by tautonymy): Phalacrocorax- 
Pelecanus carbo Linn6. 
Carbo Lacepcdo, Tabl. Ois., p. 15, Dec. 1799. Species added by Daudin in Hist. Nat. Buffon, ed. Didot, Quadr., 
Vol. XIV., p. 318 [1799] = Oct. 1802. Typo (by tautonymy): Carbo vtilgaris=P. carbo LinnA 
Halicxis Illiger, Prodr. Mamm. et Av., p. 279, (pref. April) 1811. New' name for preceding. 
Carbonarius Rafinesque, Analyse de la Nature, p. 72, 1815. New name for “ Carbo Lae.” = Lacep6de, cf. Auk, 
Vol. 26, p. 50, Jan. 1909. * 
Hydrocorax Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith., p. 63, April 14tli, 1816. Typo (by monotypy): Cormoran^P. carbo 
Linne. 
Not Hydrocorax Brisson, Ornith., Vol. IV., p. 560, 1760. 
Cormoranus Baillon, Mem. Soc. Roy. Abboville, p 76, 1833 [18341. Type (by subsequent designation, 
Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 95, 1913): P. carbo Linnd, 
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