. An illustrated manual of British birds . e natural habits of this species must be consulted, orelse it will not breed readily. The prefix Sheld is given by Ray(1674) as an East Anglian equivalent for particoloured. The adult male has the beak and basal knob bright red; headand upper neck dark glossy-green, followed by a white collar, belowwhich is a rich chestnut band ; wing-coverts white; speculum green;scapulars, part of the secondaries and the primaries nearly black;rump, upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers white, the latter tipped withblack; lower central line of the breast and belly da
. An illustrated manual of British birds . e natural habits of this species must be consulted, orelse it will not breed readily. The prefix Sheld is given by Ray(1674) as an East Anglian equivalent for particoloured. The adult male has the beak and basal knob bright red; headand upper neck dark glossy-green, followed by a white collar, belowwhich is a rich chestnut band ; wing-coverts white; speculum green;scapulars, part of the secondaries and the primaries nearly black;rump, upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers white, the latter tipped withblack; lower central line of the breast and belly dark brown, therest of the under parts white ; legs, feet and webs flesh-pink. Length24-26 in. ; wing 13 in. The female is rather smaller, duller incolour, and has no knob at the base of the bill. The young birdhas the head and neck brown ; face, neck, wing-coverts and all theunder parts white ; inner secondaries white, edged with chestnut,and with little green on the speculum; beak flesh-colour; legs andfeet livid lead-colour. 409. THE RUDDY casarca (^eus). The Ruddy Sheld-Duck is a native of warm dry countries, andwas first recorded as British from a specimen now in the NewcastleMuseum, killed near Blandford in Dorsetshire during the severewinter of 1776. The species was long ago introduced on many ofour ornamental waters, and birds shot in Norfolk, Northamptonshireand other places are either known, or are strongly suspected, to haveescaped from semi-captivity ; some records, too, are unworthy of cre-dence. There can be no doubt, however, that an example was shotfrom a party of four in Romney Marsh, Kent, on September Sth1884 ; while in Ireland one (in the Dublin Museum) was obtained inCO. Wicklow on July 7th 1847, a young male in co. Kerry on August17th 1869, another in co. Waterford in March 1871, and two wereprocured on the Shannon in the summer of 1886. As regardsScotland, occurrences have been noted in Caithness and Perthshire ;and a bird w
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