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more of a blackish-brown, and the white is clouded with 

 grey. The glossy black of the head and neck is also 

 wanting ; the fore part of the neck being white, the crown 

 and back of the neck blackish-brown. 



Of the Ruddy Shelldrake only a few specimens are 

 found in this country. 



