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SHIELDRAKE. 
16. SuHiez- Anas Tadorna. A. rostro simo, 
DRAKE. 
Descrir- 
TION. 
fronte compressa, capite ni- 
gro-virescente, corpore albo 
variegato. Lath. Ind. orn. 
854. 2d. Syn. vi. 504. ad. 
_ Sup. i. 275. ad. Sup. ii. 
353. id. Lin. Tr. iv. 117. 
tab. 15. fig. 8. 9. 
La Tadorne. Belon av. 172. 
Anas maritima. Gesner av. 
803, 804. 
Vulpanser Tadorne. Aldr. av. 
ill. 71, 97. 
Shieldrake, or burrough Duck. 
- Wil. orn. 363. 
. Raw Syn. av. 140. 
Cuass II. 
Anas Tadorna. Gm. Lin. 506. 
Jugas. Faun. Suec. sp. 113. 
La Tadorne. Brisson av. vi. 
344. tab. 33. fig. 2. Hist. 
@ ois. ix. 205. Pl. Enl. 53. 
Bergander Turneri. Chenalo- 
pex Phini. . 
Danis Brand-Gaas, Grav- 
Gaas. Norvegis Ring-Gaas, 
Fager-Gaas, Ur Gaas, Rod- 
belte. Feroenstbus Hav-Sim- 
mer. Islandis Avekong. Br. 
47. 
Kracht-Ente. Frisch, i. 166. 
Br. Zool. 154. Tab. Q. Arct. 
Zool. ii. 290. 
THE male of this elegant species weighs two 
pounds ten ounces; the length is two feet; the 
breadth three and a half. The billis 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 
