CRIMSON-BILLED SHIELDRAKE. 



(Tadorua erythrorhyncha.) 



TA. fusca subtus alba, pectore lateribus maculis fuscis, fascia 



alarum alba alteraque subtus lutescente, cauda nigrd. 

 Brown Shieldrake beneath white, the sides of the breast with 



brown spots, with a white band on the wings bounded below 



with yellowish, the tail black. 

 Anas erythrorhyncha. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 517. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 855. 

 Crimson-billed Duck. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 507- 



LENGTH fifteen inches : the beak is of a fine deep 

 crimson, and turns up a little at the end : the irides 

 red : the plumage on the upper parts of the body of 

 a dusky brown, with the forehead palest, and the 

 edges of the feathers on the back very pale : on the 

 wing is a narrow transverse white bar, with another 

 of a buff colour beneath it : the chin, sides of the 

 head, beneath the eyes, and all the under parts white, 

 with the sides of the breast irregularly spotted with 

 brown, and of the body, over the thighs, transversely 

 marked with delicate brown lines : the tail is dusky- 

 black : the legs the same. Inhabits the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



