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CRESTED SHIELDRAKE. 



(Tadorna cristata.) 



TA. cinerea cristata, fronte genis collogue postico cincrascentibiis, 

 gtdajuguloqiiejlavescentibus maculisferrugineis, specula alarum 

 ccendeo subtus albo. 



Ash-coloured crested Sliieldrake with the front, cheeks, and neck 

 behind ashy; the throat and juguluin yellowish, with rust- 

 coloured spots; the speculum of the wing blue, beneath white. 



Anas cristata. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 540. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 870- 



Crested Duck. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 543. 



" SIZE of the Wild Duck : length twenty-eight 

 inches : beak two inches long, black, and turns up 

 at the end ; edges of the upper mandible yellowish : 

 irides red : top of the head dusky, lengthening into 

 a crest at the hind head : forehead, sides under the 

 eyes, and neck, pale ash colour : chin, and fore part 

 of the neck, pale cream colour, transversely spotted 

 round the lower part of the neck with dusky and 

 ferruginous : back and wing-coverts deep dusky-ash 

 colour : lower part of the back and rump pale rufous- 

 ash colour : speculum of the wings fine blue, bounded 

 below with white : quills and tail black ; the last 

 pointed in shape, and longer than the wings. In- 

 habits Staaten Land." Latham. 



