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BUDDY SHEILDBAKE. 
of the neck being white, the crown and back of 
the neck blackish brown. 
The Ruddy Sheiddbake, Tadobna butila. — 
A. rutila, Pall. — Ruddy or Casarka Sheildrake of 
British authors . — Three specimens of this rare and 
handsomo duck are all on which we can rest its 
claim as British ; the first and original one, a fe- 
male, is now in the Newcastle Museum, it was 
killed in Dorsetshire ; another, that which served 
Mr. Selby for his Illustrations, is now in that gentle- 
man’s collection ; and the third was shot in 1834 upon 
the Sussex coast. It is also a rare bird in Central 
and Southern Europe, but seems to stretch to the 
east and across the Asiatic boundary. It is “ abun- 
dant at Erzeroom, frequents marshes during the day, 
but feeds late in the evening and early in the morn- 
ing in com and stubble fields great numbers on 
the Lake Van in August.” * Found also on the 
Indian Peninsula, on the authority of both Colonel 
Sykes and Mr. Jerdan ; the latter remarks, “ This 
large duck is less common towards the south than 
in the more northern parts of the Peninsula. Is 
frequently seen in pairs, or small parties of four, 
five, or six, but occasionally, as in the Chilka Lake, 
in numerous flocks of some hundreds ; only found, 
so far as I can learn, in the Peninsula during the 
cold weather.” t 
* Dickson and Ross, quoted from Yarrell. 
+ Madras Journal of Science for 1040. 
