PLATE LXXI. 



ANAS TARDONA. 

 SHIELDRAKE. 



Anseres. 



Bill obtufe, covered with a thin membrane, broad, gibbous below 

 the bafe, fwelled at the apex. Tongue flefhy. Legs naked. Feet 

 webbed or finned. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Bill convex above, flat beneath, hooked at the apex, with mem 

 branous teeth. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Anas Tardona roftro fimo, fronte compreffa, corpore albo varie- 



gato. Anas albo-variegata, pectoris lateribus 



ferrugineis abdomine longitudinaliter cinereo- 

 maculato. — Fn. «9^.— Lin, Syjl. Nat. vol. I. 

 p. 122. g. 61. fp. 3. edit. 10. 



Anas maritima. Gefner av. 803. 804. 



Shiejldrake or Burrough Duck. Rati Syn. p. 140. A. 1. 

 Will. Orn. p. 363. pi. 70. 71. 

 Albin. 1. pi. 94. 



Penn. Br. Zool. 2. N° 278.—^^?. Zool. p. 572. D. 

 Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. p. 504. 5i % —SuppL 



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