. Hand-book to the birds of Great Britain . the feetare flesh-coloured. These are the characters of the genusTador?ia, according to Count Salvador!, and they are ample forits definition, as the two species of which it consists are bothremarkable for their coloration, and are easily Tadorna tadorna^ the European species, there is butone other, T. radjah, of the Malayan Archipelago. I. THE COMMON SHELD-DUCK. TADORNA TADORNA. Anas tadorna, Linn. S. N. i. p. 195 (1766). Tador?ia vulpanser, Macg. Br. B. v. p. 22 (1852). Tadorna cornuta, Dresser, B. Eur. vi. p. 451, pi. 420 (187
. Hand-book to the birds of Great Britain . the feetare flesh-coloured. These are the characters of the genusTador?ia, according to Count Salvador!, and they are ample forits definition, as the two species of which it consists are bothremarkable for their coloration, and are easily Tadorna tadorna^ the European species, there is butone other, T. radjah, of the Malayan Archipelago. I. THE COMMON SHELD-DUCK. TADORNA TADORNA. Anas tadorna, Linn. S. N. i. p. 195 (1766). Tador?ia vulpanser, Macg. Br. B. v. p. 22 (1852). Tadorna cornuta, Dresser, B. Eur. vi. p. 451, pi. 420 (1878); B. O. U. List Br. B. p. 122 (1883); Saunders, ed. Yarr. Br. B. iv. p. 352 (1885); Seebohm, Br. B. iii. p. 520 (1885); Saunders, Man. p. 407 (1889); Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B. part xxvii. (1893); Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 171 (1895). {Plate LVL) Adult Male.—General colour above varied, black, white, andorange-chestnut, the head being black with a gloss of bottle-green, the black occupying the entire head and upper throat;. X THE SHELD-DUCKS. 259 round the hind-neck a white collar, widening out into a broadband across the lower throat and fore-neck; this white bandfollowed by a broad band of orange-chestnut occupying themantle, and widening out in a broad band of the same colouracross the chest, which is divided longitudinally by a blackband, which descends down the breast and joins the blackof the abdomen; the rest of the under-parts pure white,except the under tail-coverts, which are orange-chestnut; theback pure white from the mantle downwards, as also arethe wing-coverts; the scapulars black, the inner ones halfwhite and half black, and those nearest the back pure white;bastard-wing feathers white, blackish towards the ends;primary-coverts and quills black, ashy on their inner webs;secondaries black, externally metallic-green, forming a specu-lum, both bases of the inner webs white, the inner secondariesexternally chestnut, internally white or ashy, and the
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