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from the adults. The bill and legs are of a pale flesh- 

 red. The forehead, cheeks, fore part of the neck, and 

 the whole of the under parts are pure white. The crown, 

 nape, and back part of the neck are blackish-brown. 

 Wing-coverts having the feathers tipped with deep- 

 grey, giving them a mottled appearance. Feathers 

 forming the speculum tipped with white. 



RUDDY OR CASARKA SHIELDRAKE. 



TADORNA RUTILA, Steph. 

 PLATE XLVIII. 



Tadorna rutila, Steph. Shaw's ZooL 12. 71. 



Anas Casarka, Linn. Syst. 3. App. 224 Gmel. Syst. 1. 511 Lath. Ind. 



Ornith. 2. 844. sp. 24. 



Anas cana, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 2. 840. sp. 22. 

 Anas rutila, Pall Nov. Com. Petrop. 14. 5?9. 

 Canard Kasarka, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 832. 

 Ruddy Goose, Lath. Syn. 6. 456. Id. Sup. 273. 

 Greylheaded Goose, Brown, Illus. ZooL 104. t. 41. 

 Grey-headed or Ruddy Goose, Fox, Syn. Newcas. Mus. 142. No. 328. 

 Ferruginous Duck, Bewick's Br. Birds, ed. 1826. p. t. 313. 



THE only British specimen of this rare and handsome Rare visi- 

 duck, previous to the one from which the present figure and tant * 

 description are taken, is now in the Newcastle Museum, and 

 its authenticity has been clearly established by Mr Fox, in 

 his Synopsis of that part of the collection formerly known as 

 the Allen or Wy cliffs Museum. This bird was shot, it ap- 

 pears, at Bryanstone, near Blandford in Dorsetshire, the seat 

 of Mr PORTMAN, in the severe winter of 1776; the same 

 frost of which season, as Mr Fox remarks, produced the 

 Red-breasted Goose (also in that collection), a bird of equal 

 rarity, and, like the present one, a native of the eastern parts 

 of Europe. It was supposed by many, that PENNANT'S 

 Ferruginous Duck referred to this species, and it was figured 

 as such by BEWICK, in a late edition of his well-known work. 



