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Five birds arrived in this country in 1905, and fetched 
20 the couple. Specimens are also included in the col- 
lection at Woburn Abbey, but I am not aware if the sex of these 
has been determined. 
The “Shielded Duck” was represented in 1851 in the 
Zoological Society’s Gardens by one living example received 
from Mr. Blyth, Curator of the Calcutta Museum. It is 
beautifully figured in Sclater and Wolf’s “Zoological Sketches,” 
a coloured plate also existing in Sir William Jardine’s 
* Contributions to Ornithology” (1848), from which work the 
following description is gathered. The bird referred to died 
shortly after arrival, and was deposited in the British Museum. 
Male.—Head and upper neck white, evenly marked with 
black spots; lower neck and breast dark glossy green; sides 
and abdomen chestnut brown; back brown; shoulder white ; 
wing-bar velvety black; flight-feathers ashy-blue; bill orange ; 
leg yellow ; iris reddish-orange. 
Female.—Smaller; head somewhat similar to male, but 
more dusky; back brown; under parts reddish. 
Young.—No information. 
Egg.—No information. 
GENUS RHODONESSA. 
One duck represents this genus, of which the habitat is 
N. Eastern India. 
PINK-HEADED DUCK. 
(Rhodonessa caryophyllacea. Fuligula caryophyllacea yy 
This magnificent bird is but too seldom imported, being 
even in India, its native country, extremely rare; the last 
