RUDDY SHELDRAKE. 99 



secondaries, glossed with green and purple on outer web, form- 

 ing a speculum. Tertials, yellowish, foxy red on outer web, 

 gray on inner. Primaries, tail, and tail coverts, black. Bill, legs, 

 and feet, blackish. Iris, brown. Total length, about 24 inches; 

 wing, 14^; culmen, if; tarsus, 2^. 



Adult Female. — Resembles the male, but the plumage is gen- 

 erally lighter, and there is no collar at base of neck. 



