BRITISH BIRDS. 



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THE LONG-TAILED DUCK. 



SWALLOW-TAILED SHELDRAKE. 



(j-lacialis^ Linn. 'Canard de J//<r/0//, Temm. 



THIS species is nearly the size of the Wigeon. 

 The bill is short, black, and crossed by an orange- 

 red bar between the tip and the nostrils, with both 

 mandibles deeply pectinated on the edges. The 

 front of the head, the cheeks, and the sides of the 

 neck, are pale reddish brown, with an oval-shaped 

 black and chesnut patch, placed on the sides be- 

 hind the auriculars; the rest of the head and neck 

 is white: the breast, shoulders, back, and lesser 

 wing coverts, are of a deep chocolate colour, 

 more or less inclining to black or brown in 

 different birds: the greater coverts and primary 

 quills dusky: the secondaries are reddish brown, 

 and form an oblique bar of that colour across 



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