Species Dendrocygna eytoni (Eyton, 1838)

• Leptotarsis eytoni Eyton, T.C. 1838. A Monograph on the Anatidae or Duck Tribe. London : Longman. [111].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, North-western Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Mathews, G.M. & Iredale, T. 1913. A Reference List of the Birds of New Zealand. Part 2. Ibis 10 1(3): 402-452 [407].
• Dendrocygna versicolor Hartlaub, C.J.G 1846. Erst. Nachtr. Verz. Vögelsamml. Bremen.
• Dendrocygna eytoni munna Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1: 81-103 [Date published 18 Sep 1912] [86].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 731246 Skin, Coomoobalaroo, Dawson River, Queensland, Australia [23°54'S, 149°30'E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Dendrocygna eytoni (Eyton, 1838). —
  Mathews, G.M. & Iredale, T. 1913. A Reference List of the Birds of New Zealand. Part 2. Ibis 10 1(3): 402-452 [407]
• Dendrocygna (Leptotarsis) eytoni (Eyton, 1838).
• Ctenanas eytoni (Mathews, 1914).

 

Introduction

CAVS: 0205

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Breeds throughout tropical Australia, with scattered colonies in New South Wales river systems, vagrant in VIC, SA & TAS

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Blakers, M., Davies, S.J.J.F. & Reilly, P.N. 1984. The Atlas of Australian Birds. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press/Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xlvi 738 pp.

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [66]

Frith, H.J. 1977. Waterfowl in Australia. Sydney : A.H. & A.W. Reed 1st Edn, 328 pp. [80-84]

Marchant, S. & Higgins, P. (coordinators) 1990. Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds. Melbourne : Oxford University Press Vol. 1 Pt A 735 pp. 53 pls. [1129]

 

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. (Eyton Tree-Duck, Grass Whistling Duck,)

International Ornithological Committee 2003. List of International English Names of Birds of the World. (Plumed Whistling-Duck)

 

History of changes

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	AVES	29-Sep-2020	ADDED