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than deep, straight, depressed, and nearly of equal breadth 
throughout; upper mandible hooked and with a flat nail at the 
tip; nostrils placed near the base, towards the upper surface of 
the bill; cheeks covered with feathers; legs short, placed be¬ 
hind the centre of gravity; wings of medium length, first and 
second quills the longest; feet with three anterior toes, entire¬ 
ly webbed to their points ; hallux free, short, connected in some 
species by a rudimentary web. 
Section I.—Hallux without a membrane. 
Anas tadorna. — The Sheldrake. 
Plate LXV. fig. 1. 
Head and neck iridescent-black, changing to green ; jugulum 
white ; breast and shoulders with a band of orange-bay; back, 
wing-coverts, rump, upper tail-coverts, and crissum, white, a 
dusky rufous longitudinal stripe runs along the middle of the 
breast, to the crissum; part of the scapulars, bastard wing, and 
some of the quills are black; three next quills of an orange-red ; 
tail white, tipped with black; bill and fleshy protuberance red ; 
nails and nostrils black; legs flesh-coloured. Two feet long. 
Inhabits Europe. 
Anas Penelope —The Widgeon. 
Plate LXY. fig. 4. 
Upper parts, neck, and breast, bright reddish-chestnut, with 
black undulations and spots; a band of arrow-shaped ash-brown 
spots separate the neck and breast; abdomen white ; wings 
dusky ; greater coverts edged with white; secondaries deep 
black; crissum black ; front and crown cream-yellow ; bill lead- 
coloured, tipped with black; legs and toes lead-coloured. 
Eighteen inches long. Inhabits Europe. 
Anas clypeata. —The Shoveler. 
Plate LXV. fig. 3. 
Back brown; abdomen and sides chestnut-bay; head and 
upper part of the neck iridescent-black, with green reflections ; 
lower part of the neck, breast, and scapulars, white; wing- 
coverts sky-blue, terminated with white tips which form an 
oblique stripe across the wings ; bill black, much spread out at 
