572 . SHI ELD RAKE AND GULAUND. 



another of white : legs black. Length one foot ten inches. Ex- 

 tent three feet ten. Weight three pounds 'Troy. 

 Place, This moft elegant of Geefe is found to breed from the mouth of 



the 0/^j along the coafts of the Icy fea, to that of the Lena. The win- 

 ter quarters of thefe birds is not certainly known. They are obferved 

 in the fpringj flying from the Cq/planka, along the Folga, northward, . 

 in fmall flocks j and are feen about Zarizyn, between the fixth and- 

 tenth oi JpriL They refl: a little time on the banks of the Sarpa, 

 but foon refume their Ar5lic courfe *. Their winter retreat is pro- 

 bably in P^r/?iJ. They are highly efteemed for the table, being quite: 

 free from any fifhytaftei 



Di Shieldrake, Br. Zaol. ii. N" 278. — Tadorae, PI. Enl. 53. — Latham^ lii. 



Anas Tadorna. Jugas Gotlandis, Faun, Suec. N"* 11;.— Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus;- 



With a fcarlet bill : on the bafe of that of the male a large pro-^ 

 tuberance : head, and part of the neck, of a mallard-greens: 

 reft of the neck and belly white : the breaft crofled with a large band 

 of orange bay : coverts of wingSj, and the back, white : feapulars pied % - 

 tail white; tips of the outmoft feathers black : legs flefh-color; - 

 Weight of the male two pounds ten ounces. Length two iztx., . 

 Extent three and a half. 

 Flacb. Inhabits northern Europe^ as high as Iceland. Vifits Sweden and the 



Orknies in winter : returns in the fpring. Continues in England the 

 whole year. Is found in JJia about the Cafpianfea, and all the falc 

 lakes of the Tartarian and Sibirian deferts; and extends, even to ■ 

 KamtfchatkSi 



E. GuLAUND. 



With a narrowed bill : head of a malkrd-green : breaft and ! 

 belly white. Size between the Goofe and Duck kind, - 



f ExtraiiSi lu zo,- 



Inhabits 



