26. CASARCA. 177 



8, t. Ad. St. Port Essington. Capt. W. Chambers [P.]. 



M, i\ Ad. sk. Queensland. Hume Coll. 



w. S ad. sk. Moreton Bay. E. Hargitt, Esq. [P.]. 



26. CASARCA. „ 



Type. 



Casarca, Bp. Comjh List, p. 56 (1838) C. rutila. 



Nettalope.x, Heine, Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 343 (1890) 



( = Casarca, Bp.). 



Range. Confined to the Old World and Australian Ilegion. 

 Key to the Specie.s. 



a. Under tail-coverts fulvous or chestnut. 



a'. Under tail-coverts fulvous ; back and scapu- 

 lars uniform rufous; breast and abdomen 

 uniform cinnamon or rufous. 

 a". Head buff, deepening into cinnamon on 

 the neck; male with a black collar, 



female without rutila, p. 177. 



b". Head and neck ash-coloured, the anterior 



part of the head white in the female. . . . cana, p. 182. 

 b'. Under tail-coverts chestnut ; back and 

 scapulars black, waved with grey lines ; 

 male with the head and neck glossy black : 

 female with the head and upper part of 

 the neck pure white variegata, p. 183. 



b. Under tail-coverts black ; breast rufous ; male 



with the head and upper part of the neck 

 black, with a green gloss ; female with the 

 head brown, and a white band of feathers 

 round the base of the bill tadornoides, p. 185. 



1. Casarca rutila. 



Ruddy Sheldrake. 



Anas aurantia, Marsill. Danub. v. tab. 54 (1744). 



Anas persica, Frisc/i, ^i'. t. 167 ( $ ) (1763). 



Anas ferrugiuea, Cat. froey. Adumbr. p. 358. 



Anas casarca, Linn. S. N. iii. App. p. 224 (1768) ; S. G. Gm. Reise, 



ii. p. 182, t. 15 (1774) ; Gm. S. N. i. 2, p. 511, n. 46 (1788) ; 



Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 841, n. 24 (1790) ; Bonn. Enc. Meth. i, 



p. 126, pi. 24. f. 2 (1790) ; Savigny, Descr. de V Egypt, Ois. pi. 10. 



f. 1 (1809) ; Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. iii. p. 589 (1812) ; Temm. 



Man. d'Orn. p. 635 (1815) ; Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 633 (1831) ; 



Temm. t^- Scklei/. Faun. Jap., Aves, p. 128 (1850) ; Tobias, J.f. O. 



1853, p. 217 (Oberlausitz) ; Pdssler, J.f. 0. 1854, p. 380 (Tauris) ; 



Mail. J.f. O. 1856, p. 232 (Camargue) ; ■£«!,•/•»/, J.f O. 1857, 



p. 123 (Algeria) ; Finsch, J. f O. 1859, p. 386 (Bulgaria) ; 



Linderm. Voy. Griechenl. p. 159 (1860) ; Radde, Beitr. u. Keiint. 



Buss, lieiches, xxxiii. p. 215 (1861) ; Kriiper, J.f O. 1862, p. 317 



(Greece) ; Wright, Ibis, 1864, p. 155 (Malta) ; Schkg. Mus. P.-B., 



Anseres, p. 66 (1866); Wright, Ibis, 1870, p. 492 (Malta); 



Homey. J. f. O. 1870, p. 431; Gieh. Thes. Or». i. p. 347 (1872); 



Hurt/. Griech. Jiihresz. iii. p. 289 (1875). 

 Anas rutila. Pall. Nov. Comm. Petrop. xiv. 1, p. 579, tab. 22. f. 1 



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