ORDER PALMIPEDES. ()17 



161, % and 3, Wilson Am. viij. 67, 7) Naum. 

 49, f. 70 and 71, 



Is a very beautiful duck, witli the head and neck 

 green, the breast white, the belly red, the back 

 brown, the wings varied with white, ash-green and 

 brown, he. They visit us in spring, and they are 

 excellent eating. The enlargement of the base of 

 the trachea is inconsiderable. This species is the 

 Chenerotes of Pliny. 



Membranaceous Duck, An. Fasciata, Shaw, Nat. Mis. 

 pi. 697- 



Found in New Holland. The edges of the upper 

 mandible are elongated into a membranaceous appen- 

 dage. 



There have also been named — 

 New Holland Shoveler, Lath., Anas Rhynchotis, 

 Lath., and New Holland Duck, Anas Memhranacea, 

 Lath., both from New Holland, and perhaps Soft-bill 

 Duck J Lath.,^was Melanorhynchos, Gmel., fromNew 

 Zealand. 



The Tadornes 



Have the bill very much flatted towards the end, but 

 swelling out into a globular form at the base. 



Skieldrake, An. Tadorna,* L. Enl. 53, Frisch. I66, 



Naum. 1. c. 55, f. 103 and 4. 

 Is the most lively coloured of all our ducks ; white, 



* Tadorne, the name of this bird in Belon. Buffon, after Turner, 

 thought, but erroneously, that it was the Chcnalofiex of the ancients. See 

 above on the Goose of Egypt. 



