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TADOKNA COENUTA. 



(COMMON SHELDRAKE.) 



Anas tadoma, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 344, pi. xxxiii. fig. 2 (1760). 



Anas tadoma, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 195 (1766). 



Anas cornuta, S. G. Gmel. Reise d. Russl. ii. p. 185, pi. 18 (1774). 



Le Tadome, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ix. p. 205, pi. xiv. (1783). 



Tadoma familiaris, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 56. 



Tadoma bellonii, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. pt. ii. p. 72, pi. 45 (1824). 



Tadoma vulpanser, Flem. Hist. Brit. Anim. p. 122 (1828). 



Vulpanser tadoma (L.), Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 84 (1840). 



Tadoma gibbera, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 856 (1831). 



Tadoma littoralis, C. L. Brehm, op. cit. p. 857 (1831). 



Tadoma maritima, C. L. Brehm, op. cit. p. 858 (1831). 



Tadoma schachraman, C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 370 (1855). 



Tadoma belonii (Steph.), Degl. & Gerbe, Orn. Eur. ii. p. 499 (1867). 



Tadoma cornuta (Gm.), G. R. Gray, Hand-1. of B. iii. p. 80. no. 10618 (1871). 



Sheldrake, Burrow-Sheldrake, Bargander, English; Cradh-gheadh, Gaelic; Le Tadome, 

 French ; Pato-tarro, Spanish ; Volpoca, Italian ; Culuvert-ta-Barberia, Maltese ; Bou-ha- 

 ba'ida, Moorish ; Brandente, Bergente, Hohlente, German ; Bergeend, Dutch ; Gravand, 

 Danish ; Gravand, Fagergaas, Norwegian ; Graf and, Swedish ; Ristisorsa, Kivisorsa, 

 Finnish ; Pegannka, Russian. 



Figures notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PL Enl. 53 ; Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, pi. 38 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. 46, 

 and Suppl. taf. 25 ; Frisch, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 166 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 50. fig. 6 ; 

 Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 298 ; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 58. fig. 1 ; Gould, B. of 

 Eur. pi. 357; id. B. of G. Brit. v. pi. 11 ; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pis. 303, 304. 



c? ad. capite et collo superiore nigris viridi nitentibus, pilei plumis elongatis : collo imo albo : dorso et fascia 

 magna circa pectus rufescenti-ferruginea : dorso imo, uropygio et supracaudalibus albis : Cauda, alba 

 nigro apicata : scapularibus et remigibus primariis nigris, secundariis extus nitide viridibus, intimis 

 longissimis extus castaneis et intus albis, centraliter linea magna nigra, notatis : abdomine albo, cen- 

 traliter linea, magna nigra, notato : subcaudalibus aurantiaco-rufis : rostro sanguineo, carbunculo magno 

 ornato : pedibus pallide carneis : iride fusca. 



$ ad. mari similis sed minor et sordidior : fascia circa pectus angustiore. 



Adult Male (Nordland, Norway) . Head and upper neck deep black, with a rich bottle-green gloss ; feathers 

 on the hind crown and nape considerably elongated ; lower neck pure white all round ; back rich light 

 foxy red, this colour continuing in a broad band all round the body, broadening on the breast ; lower 



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