TADORNA. 



681 



icoptera, Jard., Contr. Orn. p. 141, pi. 64; Jerd,, B. Ind. iii. p. 793; 

 Blyth, B. Burnt, p. 165. Anas scutulata, Hume and Marsh., Game Birds 

 iii. pp. 147. Anas leucoptera, Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 281. The WHITE- 

 WINGED WOOD DUCK. 



Head and neck white, profusely mottled with black; hind neck glossy black ; 

 remainder of the upper plumage blackish brown ; shoulders and wing coverts 

 white ; greater coverts black ; primaries dusky ; secondaries slaty ; tertiaries 

 dusky, the outermost ones bordered with white and forming a white longitudinal 

 line in the closed wing ; breast glossy black; lower plumage dusky castaneous, 

 dark brown on the flanks and under tail coverts ; bill and legs black. (Jerd?) 



Length. 28 inches ; wing 15 ; tail 6; bill at front 3 ; tarsus 2*5 ; mid-toe 3*25 



Hab. Tenasserim at Tavoy and at Mergui. Gates says it occurs in Assam 

 and in the hill tracts of Eastern Bengal, in the northern part of the Malay 

 Peninsula and in Java. 



Gen. Tadoma, Leach. 



Bill short, high at the base, and with a knob ; wing tuberculated ; nail at tip 

 of bill rather hooked. 



I Tadorna cornuta, Gm. The Shelldrake. 



1385. Tadorna cornuta (Gm.\ Syst. Nat. \. p. 524; Bodd., Tab. 

 , E. 53 ; Naum. Vogt. t. 298; Gould, B. Eur. pi. 357; Hume, Game Birds, 

 p. 136; Murray, Vert. Zool., Sind, pp. 289, 290. Tadorna vulpanser 

 (Fleming), Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 794; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., fyc., Sind, 

 p. 235. The SHELLDRAKE or BURROW DUCK. 

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