304 DUCK. 



67.-SHIELDRAKE. 



Anas Tadorna, Ind. Orn. ii. 854. Lin. i. 195. Fn. suec. No. 113. Gm. Lin. i. 506. 



Brun. No. 45, 46, 47. Muller, No. 107. JVmcA, t. 166. Georgi, 165. Gme/. 



rme, ii. 185. t. 19. A. cornuta. Schr. der Berl. Nat. iii. 373. t. 7. f. 3, 4.— the 



trachea. Bor. iii. p. 16. 11. Raii, 143. A. 1. Will. 278. t. 70, 71. Bris. vi. 



344. t. 33. f. 2. Jd. 8vo. ii. 477. Sepp. ii. t. 99, 100. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 536. 



Id. Ed. 2d. iv. 834. 

 Vulpanser, Klein, Av. 130. 9. Gerin. v. t. 576. 



Die Brandente, Bechst. Dents, ii. 570. Id. Ed. 2d. iv. p. 976. Naturf. xii. 132. 

 Tadome, Buf. ix. 205. pi. 14. PI. enl. 53.— male. 

 Shieldrake, Gen. Syn. vi. 504. Id. Sup. 275. 7rf. Sap. ii. 353. £r. Zoo/, ii. No. 27S. 



ld.fol. 154. pi. Q. Id. 1812. ii. 256. Arct. Zool. ii. 572. D. Albin, i. pi. 94. 



Will. Engl. 363. pi. 70, 71. Hayes's Birds, pi. 28.— male. Bewick, ii. pi. in p. 



341. Liw. Trans, iv. 117. pi. xv. f. 8, 9. — the trachea. Lewin, vii. pi. 348. Id. 



li. f. 1. — the egg. Walcot, i. pi. 57. Donov. pi. 71. Ost. Menag. Graves, Br. 



Orn. Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. 



SIZE of the Wild Duck; length two feet; weight two pounds 

 two ounces. The bill turns up much at the end, is pretty broad, 

 and red ; at the base a rising knob ; the nostrils and nail at the end 

 black ; head, throat, and part of the neck, greenish black ; the rest 

 of the neck, back, rump, and upper tail coverts, white ; on the breast 

 a broad rufous bay band, which growing narrower, passes above the 

 wings, and encircles the upper part of the back; scapulars black; 

 wing coverts white; some of the outer ones, bastard wing, and quills, 

 black; some of the quills part white part black; speculum green 

 gold, glossed with copper ; beneath from the breast white, down the 

 middle an irregular list of black ; vent pale rufous ; tail white, of 

 fourteen feathers, all but the two outmost tipped with black ; the 

 legs red. The female is smaller, but when adult does not essentially 

 differ in plumage, except that the colours are less vivid. 



The young, however, before the first moult, differ much from the 

 old birds. The bill pale red ; crown and neck behind dusky brown ; 

 forehead, cheeks, and all beneath from the chin, white; quills black ; 

 and except the two or three first, as well as the feathers of the 

 speculum, tipped with white; wing coverts mixed with dusky. 



