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GEORGIA SHIELDRAKE. 



(Tadorna Georgica.) 



TA. cinereo-nebulosa, tectricibus alarum cinerascentibus , specula 

 alarum viridi albo marginato, remigibus rectricibusque nigri- 

 cantibus. 



Ashy-clouded Shieldrake with the wing-coverts ashy, the spe- 

 culum of the wing green, margined with white, the^quills and 

 tail-feathers dusky. 



Anas Georgica. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1.516. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 847 



Georgia Duck. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 478. 



" LENGTH twenty inches : beak two inches, turn- 

 ing up a little at the end; colour yellow ; edges and 

 tip dusky black : irides reddish-brown : the head and 

 neck pale reddish-ash colour, lightest on the fore part, 

 and minutely dashed with dusky streaks : the upper 

 parts of the body pale reddish-ash colour, marked 

 with dusky spots : scapulars the same, but deeper in 

 colour : wing-coverts pale ash colour : speculum of 

 the wings pale verdigris-green, edged with dusky, 

 bounded above and beneath with a bar of white : sides 

 pale cinereous, marked with spots of a deeper colour: 

 quills and tail dusky : legs greenish-ash colour. This 

 was found in South Georgia, the middle of January, 

 and was a male bird : the flesh was thought good 

 eating. From the drawings of Sir Joseph Banks." 

 Latham. 



