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‘at Ruddy ferruginous, with the head and anterior part of the wing 
lighter, sometimes nearly white; tail and lower part of the back 
black, glossed with green; quills black; secondaries bright glossy 
green, with the inner webs hoary; bill and legs black; sometimes a 
black ring round the neck is visible. 
Casarka rutila ...cccse0..... Bonap. Cat. Am.and Europ. 
\ Birds. 
AAR PROTIED, sn costs etnvess008 Linn. Syst. 3 App. 224. 
PERIL oasas States: ook ba ote Pall. Nov. Com. | Petrop. 
14. 579. 
FOGROVROTULUG Joo 0a2 csc ci snesee Steph. Sh. Zool. 12. 71. 
Selb. Illust. Brit. Orn, 2.293. 
Canard, Casar hea aces vee cts ae Temm. Man. Orn. 2. 832. 
Ruddy Sheldrake ...scccccceveee Gould, Birds of Europe. 
Ferruginous Duck ............... Bew. Brit. Birds, 2. 313. 
ameaay GOO8O= , fncccstecnsen evens: Lath. Syn. 6. 456. 
Met with occasionally in most parts of the European continent, 
- India, and Africa; lays eight white eggs; frequents chiefly fresh 
water. Colonel Sykes found these birds for the most part of the 
year in pairs in the Deccan; but on the Nerbudda river, in Guzerat, 
_ he has seen them congregated in hundreds in April. He found the 
stomachs of many of them filled with grass seeds and vegetable 
matter only. 
CASARKA SCUTELLATA. 
Cas.—Capite albo nigro strigato. 
_ Cas. with the head striped with black. 
Casarka scutellata ..ccccccccceees Muller. 
Leucopterd — ........0-.- Strickland, Blyth. 
SCUTCLIALA woe ceeseneveess Sclater, Wolf’s Sketches, 
pl. 49. 
Sheldrake, with the bill orange ; back brown; head white, barred 
with black; breast zneous, below dark-brown; wing coverts white ; 
speculum blue; primaries and tail black. 
First found in Java by Muller, afterwards in India from the 
Tesarim provinces, and described by Mr. Blyth under the name 
of Casarka leucoptera. 
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