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SHIELDRAKE. 



Class II. 



16. Shiel- 



DRAKE. 



Anas Tadorna. A. rostro simo, 

 fronte compressa, caplte ni- 

 gro-virescente, corpore albo 

 variegato. Lath. Ind. orn. 

 854. id. Syn. vi. 504. id. 

 Sup. i. 275. id. Sup. ii. 

 353. id. Lin. Tr. iv. 117. 



' iah. 15. Jig. 8. 9. 



La Tadorne. Belon av. 172. 



Anas maritima. Gesner av. 

 803, 804. 



Vulpanser Tadorne. Aldr. av. 

 iii. 71,97. 



Shieldrake, or burrovrgh Duck. 

 PFil. orn. 363. 



Rail Syn. av. 140. 



Anas Tadorna. Gm. Lin. 506. 



Jugas. Faun. Suec. sp. 113. 



La Tadorne. Brisson av. vi. 

 344. tab. 33. fg. 2. Hist, 

 d'ois. ix. 205. PL Enl. 53. 



Bergander Turneri. Chenalo- 

 pex Plinii. 



Danis Brand-Gaas, Grav- 

 Gaas. Norvegis Ring-Gaas, 

 Fager-Gaas, Ur Gaas, Rod- 

 belte. Feroensilus Hav-Sim- 

 mer. Islandis Avekong. Br. 

 47. 



Kracht-Ente. Frisck, ii. I66. 



Br. Zool. 154. Tal. Q. Arct. 

 Zool. ii. 299. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



X HE male of this elegant species weighs two 

 pounds ten ounces ; the length is two feet ; the 

 breadth three and a half. The bill is of a 

 bright red, and at the base swells into a knob, 

 which is most conspicuous in the spring ; the 

 head and upper part of the neck is of a fine 

 blackish green ; the lower part of the neck 

 white ; the breast, and upper part of the back 

 is surrounded with a broad band of bright 

 orange bay ; the coverts of the wings, and the 

 middle of the back are white ; the nearest sca- 

 pulars black, the others white ; the greater quil 

 feathers are black : the exterior webs of the 



