274 Mr. W. R Ogilvie-Grant on Birds 



Tadorna radjah. 



Tadorna radjah Garii. ; Salvad. Cat. xxvii. p. 175 (1895); 

 van Oort, p. 55 (1909) ; Ogilvie-Grant, P. & P. p. 292 (1912) ; 

 id. Ibis, 1913, p. 103. 



a-d. c? et cJ imm. Wakatimi, Mimika River, 10th Jan., 

 25th Nov. 1910, and 11th March, 1911. [Nos. 1002, 1545, 

 1546, G. C.S.; & 1144, C.R.B. G.] 



e. ? . Canoe Camp, Setakwa River, 20th Nov. 1912. 

 [C.B.K] 



Adidt (^ . Iris white or pale yellowish-white, eyelid pale 

 orange ; hill and feet creamy-white tinged with bluish, a 

 black ring round the nasal openings. 



Adidt ? . Iris cream-colour ; eyelid yellow ; bill flesh- 

 colour, bluish-white at the base o£ the upper mandible ; feet 

 fleshy-pink with blue veins. 



Immature male. Iris dull buff*; bill flesh-colour sufl'used 

 with pale dull blue ; feet pale dull blue. 



Adult male. Total length in the flesh 532 mm. ( = 21 

 inches) . 



Immature males. Total length in the flesh 462-482 mm. 

 ( = 18-25-19 inches). 



The immature male has the crown of tlie head dark smoky- 

 grey; the lesser wing-coverts narrowly edged with blackish 

 and the basal portion of the greater wing-coverts black, or 

 mostly black, forming a rather wide irregular band across 

 the wing ; in the adult the greater wing-coverts are pure 

 white with a narrow submarginal black band, about 3 mm. 

 wide, forming a clean-cut black band across the wing. The 

 breast-band in the immature bird is blackish freckled with 

 bufi", instead of chestnut barred with black as in the adult, 

 and is more or less incomplete in the middle. The more 

 rufoQS-backed Australian form of this species has been 

 separated by Dr. Hartert as T, r. rufitergum \_cf. N. Z. xii. 

 p. 205 (1905)]. 



"The White-necked Sheld-Duck was usually seen in 

 pairs, but could not be considered by any means plentiful. 

 It has a straight flight and loud call. Most of those I saw 

 were either on the river banks or perched on some horizontal 

 branch of a low tree near the water's edge/' — C. H. B. G. 



