What is "hooded sheldrake"

Hooded \Hood"ed\, a.

1. Covered with a hood.

2. Furnished with a hood or something like a hood.

3. Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip.

4. (Zo["o]l.)

   1. Having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds.

   2. Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake.

      Hooded crow, a European crow (Corvus cornix); -- called also hoody, dun crow, and royston crow.

      Hooded gull, the European black-headed pewit or gull.

      Hooded merganser. See Merganser.

      Hooded seal, a large North Atlantic seal ( Cystophora cristata). The male has a large, inflatible, hoodlike sac upon the head. Called also hoodcap.

      Hooded sheldrake, the hooded merganser. See Merganser.

      Hooded snake. See Cobra de capello, Asp, Haje, etc.

      Hooded warbler, a small American warbler ( Sylvania mitrata).

n. small North American duck with a high circular crest on the male's head [syn: hooded merganser, Lophodytes cucullatus]