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TADOENA CASAECA. 



(RUDDY SHELDRAKE.) 



Anas casarca, Linn. Syst. Nat. iii. App. p. 224 (1768). 



Anas rutila, Pall. Nov. Com. Petrop. xiv. p. 579 (1770). 



Anas casarka, S. G. Gmel. Reise, ii. p. 182 (1774). 



Anser casarca (L.), Vieill. Nouv. Diet, xxiii. p. 341 (1818). 



Tadoma rutila (Pall.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 563. 



Casarca rutila (Pall.), Bp. Comp. List, p. 56 (1838). 



Vulpanser rutila (Pall), Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 84 (1840). 



Tadoma casarca, Macg. Man. Brit. Orn. ii. p. 163 (1842). 



Anas aurantia, Marsil. Danub. v. t. 54, fide Von Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 1307 (1873). 



Tadorne casarca, French ; Pato tarro, Spanish ; Wuz-Abu-Faroa, Arabic ; Bou-ha, Moorish ; 

 Rost-Ente, rothe Pfeifente, German ; Krasnaya Ootka, Russian ; Kermesi Erdek, Turkish. 



Figuras notabiles. 



Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, pi. 37; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. 48; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 47. 

 fig. 9 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 299 ; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 83. fig. 1 ; Gould, 

 B. of Eur. pi. 358; id. B. of G. Brit. v. pi. 12 ; Savigny, Desc. de l'Egypte, pi. 10. fig. 1. 



<S ad. capite ochraceo, mento et nucha, ferrugineo tinctis : collo ochrascenti-ferrugineo, in parte ima nigro 

 cincto : dorso, collo imo, pectore et corpore subtus ferrugineis, scapularibus et hypochondriis pallidi- 

 oribus : uropygio ochrascenti-ferrugineo, nigro-fusco vermiculato : remigibus et rectricibus cum supra- 

 caudalibus nigris, remigibus secundariis extiis viridi et purpureo nitentibus speculum formantibus : 

 secundariis intimis ochrascente ferrugineo, in pogonio interno cinereo tinctis : tectricibus alarum 

 albis : rostro et pedibus nigricantibus : iride fusca. 



2 ad. mari similis sed ubique pallidior et sordidior, capite albicantiore nee collo nigro cincto. 



Adult Male (Athens). Head creamy yellow, on the chin and nape gradually darkening into yellowish red; 

 neck yellowish red, encircled below by a black ring, below which the lower neck, back, breast, and 

 underparts are rich foxy red, the flanks and the scapulars being paler in colour; rump yellowish red, 

 vermiculated with black ; quills, tad, and tail-coverts black, secondaries glossed with green and purple 

 on the outer web, forming a speculum, inner secondaries yellowish red, tinged with ashy grey on the 

 inner web ; wing-coverts white ; bill and legs blackish ; iris brown. Total length about 24 inches, 

 culmen 175, wing 14-0, tail 5'5, tarsus 2 - 5. 



Adult Female (Seville, Spain) . Resembles the male, except that the head is whiter, the collar round the 

 neck is wanting, and the general tone of coloration is lighter. 



Young (Sarepta). Resembles the female, but is duller in colour, the inner secondaries and scapulars are 

 brown, marked with yeUowish red, and the white on the wings is washed or soiled with grey. 



