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RUDDY SHIELDRAKE. 
RUDDY GOOSE. COLLARED DUCK. 
Tudorna rutila, JeNyNs. SELBY. GOULD. 
Anas rutila, BEWICK. 
Tadorna—........2+4+ ? Rutila—Fiery red. 
Tue bird thus called advances from Denmark, through the 
south of Russia, to various parts of the east of Europe, and 
has been met with also in Germany, Hungary, Italy, Turkey, 
Greece, and Austria. It likewise appertains to Asia, having 
been found in Persia, Asia Minor, the Dukkun in India, and 
the neighbourhood of the Caucasian range. Great numbers 
have been seen on Lake Van, that beautiful water, which no 
one read the description of in Mr. Layard’s ‘Nineveh’ without 
wishing that he ‘might be there to see.’ In Africa also they 
are said to be found, even to the Cape. 
Several of these Shieldrakes have now been procured in this 
country. 
Marmaduke Tunstall, Esq. possessed one which was believed 
to have been shot in the severe winter of 1776, at Bryanstone, 
near Blandford, Dorsetshire, the seat of Mr. Portman, ancestor 
of Lord Portman. A second was subsequently killed in the 
south of England, and a third at Iken, near Orford, in the 
county of Suffolk, in January, 1834. 
In Ireland one was shot on the Murrogh of Wicklow, on 
the 7th. of July, 1847, by Mr. John Moreton. 
In the Orkneys, one in Sanday, by Mr. Strang, in October, 
1831. 
The Ruddy Shieldrake appears to frequent the land more 
than the water. 
