Suecprake. NATATORES. TADORNA. 293 
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. 
Taporna 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. 579. 
Canard Kasarka, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 832. 
Ruddy Goose, Lath. Syn. 6. 456.—Id. Sup. 273. 
Grey-headed Goose, Brown, Illus. Zool. 104. t. 41. 
Grey-headed or Ruddy Goose, For, Syn. Newcas. Mus. 142. No. 328. 
Ferruginous Duck, Bewick’s Br. Birds, ed. 1826. p. t. 313. 
Tue 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 Wycliffe 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, ina late edition of his well-known work. 
