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TADORNA VULPANSER. THE BURROW 

 SHIELDUCK. 



SHIELDRAKE. SKELDRAKE. SKELGOOSE. SKEELING GOOSE. BURROW DUCK. 

 ST. GEORGE'S DUCK. SLY GOOSE. BERGANDER. STOCKANNET. 



Fig. 60. 



Anas Tadorna. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 195. 



Anas Tadorna.. Lath. Ind. Orn. IL 854. 



Shieldrake. Mont. Orn. Diet, and Supplt. 



Canard Tadorne. Anas Tadorna. Temm. Man. d'Orn. IL 833. 



Common Shieldrake. Tadoi-na Vulpanser. Selb. lUustr. IL 289. 



Tadorna Bellonii. Common Shieldrake. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 229. 



Tadorna Vulpanser. Bonap. Comp. List, 56. 



Male twenty-four inches long, tcith the hill considerahly 

 rearcuatc, and having a fleshy knob at the base, the icing with 

 a blunt tubercle, the tail of fourteen feathers ; the bill bright 

 red, the feet flesh-coloured ; the head and ujJj^er neck black 

 glossed tcith green, the hirer neck wJiite ; the fore imrt of the 

 body light red ; the rest of the ][)lumage u-hite, excepting a 

 medial band on the breast and abdomen, a broad imtch on each 

 side of the back including the scajmlars, and the inimary qnilh 



