LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Class AVES. 
Sub-Class DROIVLEORNITHES. 
Order CASUARIIFORMES. 
Family DROMICEIID.F. 
I. Genus DROMICEIUS. 
Dromiceius Vioillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith., p. 64, April 14th, 1810. Type (by monotypy): Gasuarius now®- 
hoUandtoB Latham. Also spelt Dromaius on p. 70. 
Tachca Fleming, Philos, of Zool., Vol. II., p. 257, June, 1822. Typo (by monotypy): Gasuarius nova-hollandur 
Latham. 
Emou Griffith and Pigeon, Anim. Kingd., Cuvier, Vol. VIII., p. 443, “ 1820 " [? 1830]. New name for Dromaius 
Vieillot. 
1. DROMICEIUS NOV/EHOLLANDI/E. EMU. 
Gould, Vol. VI., pi. I. (pt. xxxiii.), Dec. 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. I., pt. 1, pis. 1 and 2, 
Oct. 31st, 1910. 
CaJuariu# noYshollandim Latham. Index Ornith., Vol. IT., p. 60S, (before Dee. 9th) 1790: Sydney, New SouthWales. 
Cas.mri^amdrntoShaw and Nodder, Nat. MisceU., Vol. III., pi. 99. April 1st, 1792: Sydney, New South Wales. 
Dromaius atcr Vioillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. X., p. 212. June 21st, 1817. New name for C. normWWt® 
Latham. _ , __ . 
Dromicous emu Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIV., p. 307, pi. 39, 1826 (late): Sydney. New South Wales. 
Dromctus irroratu* Bartlett, Proo. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1859, p. 205, Oct. 1st : Interior of Now SouthWales. 
Dromaus diemonarsis Le Souef, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. XXI., p. 13, Oct. 29tli, 1907 : Tasmania. 
Dromiceius nmvrMW.or rvoodwardi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 175, Jan. 31st, 1912: Strelley Kiver, 
mid-West Australia. 
Dromiceius novahollandia: rothschildi Mathews, ib. : Gracoflold, South-west Australia. 
Distribution. Australia •. Except the scrub country from Cardwell to Lloyds Bay, North Queensland. 
[Tasmania. Extinct.] 
II. Genus PERONISTA. 
Peronista Mathews, Austral Av.Rec., Vol. I., pt. 5, p. 107, Dec. 24th, 1912. Type (by original designation): 
Dromaius peroni Rothschild. 
2. PERONISTA PERONI. DWARF EMU. 
Mathews, Vol. I., pt. 1, pis. 3 and 4 ? Oct. 31st, 1910. 
Dromaius peroni Rothschild, Extinct Birds, p. 235, pi. 40, 1907 : Kangaroo Island. 
Dromaius parvulus Mathews. Birds Austr., Vol. I., pt 1. P- 19. Oct. 31st, 1910; ex Gould, Penny Cyclop., Vol. 
XXJII p 145. 1842. Nom. nud. : Kangaroo Island. 
7 Dromiceius spenceri Mathews, Nov. Zool.. Vol. XVIII.. p. 176, Jan. 31st, 1912 [King Island =] Kangaroo 
Island. 
Distribution. Kangaroo Island, off South Australia. (Extinct. Only one skin known.) 
Family CASUARIID.E. 
III. Genus GASUARIUS. 
Gasuarius Brisson. Ornith., Vol. V., p. 10, 1760. Type (by tautonymy): Gasuarius = S ‘ r ^TTZ7d^7ol' 
Rhea £:]”o c ?.? < l'802.^^T\^^ < (l^ ! iuonoty^)y ) ) a : U< R^'fiacSmcu4tw t '=^rui/iio castiarius hiunl. ^ 
Cassowara Perry, Arcana.pt. 21 (pi. 82). Sept. 1st. 1811. Type (by monotypy): Cassovara «*«.« Perry =S/ruI/uo 
oZtJtt Naturg., Vol. III., Zool.. 2 Abth., P . 646. 1816. Type (by monotypy,: Strulhio 
casuarius Linne 
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