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Casarka rutila Bonap. Cat. Am. and Europ. Birds. 



Anas Casarka Lain. Syst. 3 App. 224. 



Anas rutila Pall. Nov. Com. Petrop. 14. 579. 



Tadorna rutila Steph. Sh. ZooL 12. 71. 



Selb. I/lust. Brit. Orn. 2. 293. 



Canard Casarka Temm. Man. Orn. 2. 832. 



Ruddy Sheldrake Gould, Birds of Europe. 



Ferruginous Duck Ben. Brit. Birds, 2. 313. 



Ruddy Goose 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. Col. Sykes found these hirds 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. Col. Sykes found the stomachs of many of them filled with grass seeds and 

 vegetable matter only. 



CASARKA TADONOIDES. 



Cas. — Capite, cauda, vertreque atris, hoc castaneo sparso ; cingulo albo collo. 



NEW HOLLAND SHELDRAKE. 



Sheldrake, with the head, tail, back, and belly black, the latter irrorated with castaneous ; a 

 white ring round the neck. 



Length , 



IN. 



27 



Bill. 



IN. 



12 



Tarsi . 



IN. 



2 



Head, back, belly, and tail black ; the back and belly irrorated with ferruginous ; the lower 

 part of the back and tail slightly tinged with green ; upper part of the back, breast, and outer webs 

 of the tertiaries ferruginous ; a white collar round the neck ; fore part of the wing white ; wing 

 spot light green ; quills black ; legs and bill black. In the female a white band surrounds the 

 base of the bill, from which another passes through the eye. 



Anas Tadonoides , 

 Inhabits New Holland. 



Jard. Sf Selb. Illus. Orn. pi. 411. 



