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TADORNA BELLONII. 



Tad. — Albus ; capite colloque atris ; rostro cruribusque rubris. 



COMMON SHELDRAKE, 

 White sheldrake ; with the head and neck hlack ; the hill and legs red, 



IN. IN. 



Length 23± Tarsi . ., 2 



Bill 2 Middle toe 2± 



Head and upper part of the neck black, glossed -with green ; fore part of the wings, back, 

 tail, abdomen, and tail coverts, white ; tail feathers tipped with black ; a line down the middle of 

 the abdomen black ; upper part of the back and band across the breast deep ferruginous ; quills 

 black ; wing spot green ; bill and legs reddish orange, the latter in some specimens inclining to 

 flesh colour. 



Anas Tadorna Linn. Si/st. *\'at. 1. 195-4. 



Bail Syn. 140 A. 1. 



Tadorna vulpanser Flem. Brit. An. 1. 122. 



Lc Tadorne Buff. Ois. 9. 205. 



Canard Tadorne Temm. Man. 



Tadorna vidpanser Selb. Llhist. Brit. Orn. 11. 289. ' 



Gould, Birds of Europe. 



Tadorna Bellonii Steph. Sh. Zool. 12. 72. 



Trachea Linn. Trans, vol. iv. tab. 15, Jiff. 9, 10. 



Found over nearly the whole of Europe and some parts of Asia and America ; lays twelve 

 eggs of a whitish colour, generally in rabbit holes ; frequents the sea. Trachea of male slightly 

 enlarged about an inch and half above the inferior larynx, and again contracted immediately above 

 it, as among the Anserince. The inferior larynx is furnished with two large compressed bidbs, 

 the one on the right side being nearly double the size of that on the left ; but neither are of such 

 strength as in those species of the last family which possess that adjunct. 



