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ANATTN7E. 



Tadorna cornuta, Gm. Syst. Nat. P. E. 53; Navm. Vogt. t. 298} 

 Gould. B. Eur. pi. 357; Hume, Game Birds, p. 136. Tadorna 

 vulpanser, Fleming; Jerd. B. Ind. iii. p. 794; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., 

 Sj-c, Sind, p. 235. — The Shelldeake or Bukkow Duck. 



Head, sides of the face, chin, throat, and about one-half of the 

 neck all round deep black, with glossy green reflections; below this the 

 neck all round is white, as are also the back, wing-coverts, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts and tail, the latter tipped with black ; a broad band 

 of ferruginous or orange chestnut across the breast, meeting above on 

 the foreback ; under surface white, except a mesial band in the middle 

 of the abdomen ; primaries black; greater coverts forming the specu- 

 lum, and outer webs of the secondaries glossy golden green ; upper 

 secondaries chestnut on their outer webs ; tertiaries and scapulars black ; 

 bill blood-red, with a knob at the base of the upper mandible ; nail 

 black; bill deep red ; irides brown ; legs fleshy red. 



Length. — 23-25 inches, wing 12 to 13'5, tail 4"75 to 5'5, tarsus 2 to 

 2 3. Females average 20 to 22 inches in length, and are much duller 

 in colour. 



Ilab. — Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan, B. Turkistan, 

 Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, Kutch and Kattiawar Coast. 

 Except in large lakes the Shelldrake is only found on the sea coast, the 

 neighbourhood of the sea being its proper home. 



Sub-Family, ANATIN^, 



Hind toe small, not bordered by a membrane ; bill even in width 

 throughout, or wider at the tip ; lamellte numerous, fine and bristly. 



Spatula, Boio. — Bill longer than the head, narrow at the base, broad 

 at the tip, shovel-like ; nail small ; lameilse fine and bristly. 



Spatula clypeata. The Shoveller. 



Spatula clypeata, Lin.; P. E. 971, 972 ; Gould. B. Eur. pi. 300; 

 Jerd. B. Ind. iii. p. 796; 8tr. F. iv. 199; Murray, Hdbk., Zool, 4'c., 

 Sind, p. 235 ; Hume and Marsh. Game Birds Ind. p. 141. Vern, 

 Alipat, Sind. — The Shovellek. 



