72 BURROW SHIELDRAKE. 



or nine white eggs : she sometimes constructs her 

 nest in a hollow tree, or in the deserted holes of 

 the Marmot. It will not bear confinement, several 

 attempts having been made to reclaim it, but to no 

 purpose. Its voice is said to resemble that of a Pea- 

 cock, or rather the notes of a clarionet. Its chief 

 food consists of aquatic plants, their seeds, insects, 

 or small fishes. 



BURROW SHIELDRAKE. 



(Tadorna Bellonii.) 



TA. cnpite nigro-virescente, corpore albo variegato. 



Shieldrake with a greenish-black head, the body variegated with 



white. 

 Alias Tadorna. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 195. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



506. Rail, Syn. 140. A. Briss. Orn. 6. 344. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 854. 

 Tadorne. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 205. pi. 14. Buff. PL Enl. 



53. Cuv. Reg. Anim. \. 537. 



Canard tadorne. Temm. man.'d'Orn. 536. Id. 2 Edit. ii. 833. 

 Shieldrake. Alb. Birds, 1. pi. 94. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 278. 



Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 972. Hayes, Brit. Birds, 1 . pi. 28. male. 



Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 504. Lath. Syn. Sup. 275. Lath. Syn. 



Sup. ii. 353. Don. Brit. Birds, pi. 71. Leu. Brit. Birds, 7. 



pi. 248. Wale. Syn. 1. pi. 57. Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. and Sup. 



Lath. Linn. Trans, iv. 117. pi. 15. /. 8, 9. (trachea.) Ben. 



Brit. Birds, 2.341. 

 Tadorna Bellonii. Leach MSS. 



NOT quite two feet in length : the beak and its 

 fleshy protuberance in front of a blood-red : the irides 

 brown : the head and neck of a very dull green : the 



