RUDDY SHELDRAKE 



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Russian: 



Krasnaya utka 

 Karagatka — (Cossacks) 

 Krasnaja utica 

 Turpan — (Caucasus) 



Spanish: 



Pato tarro 



Pato de color de canelo 



Labanco 



Italian: 



Casarca 



Germano forestiero 

 Fiscuni imperiali 

 Fiscuni furastieri 



Moorish: 

 Bou-ha 



Maltese: 



Culuvert ta Barbaria ahrnar 



Arabic: 



Wuz-abu-faroa 

 Ijogeh 



Turkish: 



Kermesi erdek 



DESCRIPTION 



Adult Male : Head light buff, throat and chin darker buff, neck rusty brown with a black ring, 

 more or less perfectly developed. Mantle, scapulars, breast and lower parts rich foxy red; back 

 reddish, vermiculated with black lines; rump and tail black. Wing-coverts white, secondaries me- 

 tallic green on outer web, forming a speculum; primaries black. Tertials red on outer web, nearly 

 white on inner web. 



Bill bluish black, nail black. Legs ashy gray, with black claws. Iris hazel-brown (according to 

 Naumann, darker color in young specimens). 



Wing 330-350 mm.; bill 42-45; tarsus 59-66. 



Weight: male, 3 pounds 2 ounces to 4 pounds 7 ounces (1.43 to 2.02 kilograms). 



Adult Female: Black collar wanting, head and neck lighter color; general color lighter. 

 Weight: 2 pounds 3 ounces to 3 pounds 8 ounces (1.00 to 1.60 kilograms). 



Immature: Resembles the female, but is duller in color; the tertials and scapulars are brown, marked 

 with yellowish red, and the white on the wings is washed or soiled with gray (Dresser). 



Bulgarian: 

 Kilifari 

 Angut 



Croatian: 



Utva zlatokrila 



Czech: 



Husa ruda 



Hindustani: 

 Surkhab 



Bengali: 

 Boogri 



Yarkand: 

 Hangat 

 Ngooroo ngaupa 



Chinese: 



Hwang-ya 



Japanese: 



Aka-tsukushigamo 



Kalmucks: 

 Aangir 



Young in Down: The specimens which I have examined in the British Museum and at Leyden 



