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having been obtained in the neighbourhood of the Cape. It has, how- 
ever, been introduced alive into this country, and kept in confinement 
both by Lord Derby, at Knowsley, and in the gardens of the 
Zoological Society. Specimens were in the Museum of that Society. 
TADORNA BELLONII. 
Tad.—Albus ; capite colloque atris; rostro cruribusque rubris. 
COMMON SHELDRAKE. 
White sheldrake ; with the head and neck black; the bill and legs 
red. ; 
IN. IN. 
DERG OE Sasdecs Secsnesds dvs. (20% LONGR Scat tab covenant 
AY 2 7g PER See tei ee 2 Middle (06 ouececits tne 24 
Head and upper part of the neck black, glossed with green; fore 
part of the wings, back, tail, abdomen, and tail coverts white; tail 
feathers tipped with black; a line down the middle of the abdomen 
_ black; upper part of the back and band across the breast deep fer- 
ruginous; quills black; wing-spot green; bill and legs reddish 
orange, the latter in some specimens inclining to flesh-colour. 
TEI LALOLNE sc daae 43 e0eg Bs: Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 195-4. 
Rati Syn. 140 A. 1. 
TAadornd VUulpanser seccssssecceeee Flem. Brit. An. 1. 122. 
PME PIO ao tinea inks c's vad os ain Buff. Ois. 9. 2085. 
CONG: TAGOUNE s.60 5c os weskees Temm. Man. 
Tadorna vulpanser  .. s....... Selb.Lust.Brit. Orn. 11. 289. 
| Gould, Birds of Europe. 
LOAOTHE DEllOnie ‘insane dvi deast Steph. Sh. Zool. 12. 72. 
PUREE veciie  tt Ge oeei Auch oc ead Linn. Trans. vol. iv. tab. 15, 
Jig. 9, 10. 
- Found over nearly the whole of Kurope and some parts of Asia 
-and America; lays twelve eggs of a whitish colour, generally in 
rabbit holes; frequents the sea. Trachea of male slightly enlarged 
about an inch and half above the inferior larynx, and again contracted 
immediately above it, as among the Anserine. The inferior larynx 
is furnished with two large compressed bulbs, the one on the right 
side being nearly double the size of that on the left; but neither are 
of such strength as in those species of the last family which possess 
that adjunct. 
