BUDDY SHIELDItAKE.
KUDDY GOOSE. COLLARED DUCK.
Tadoma ru/i'/a, J KNYNS. SELBY. GOULD.
Anas ruiila, BEWICK.
Tadoma— ? Ruiila—Fiery red.
THE bird thus called advances from Denmark, through the south of
Russia, to various parts of the east of Europe, the Cralian Mountains,
and along the course of the River AVolga, and lias been met with also
in Germany, Hungary, Italy, Turkey, Greece, and Austria. It likewise
appertains to Asia, having been found in Persia, Asia Minor,
the Dukkun in India, and the neighbourhood of the Caucasian range.
(I real numbers have been seen on Lake \ an, that beautiful water,
which no one can read the description of in Mr. Layard's 'Nineveh'
without wishing that he 'might be there to see.' In Africa also they
are said to be found, even to the Cape.
Several of I hese Shield rakes have now been procured in this
country.
Marmaduke Tunstall, Esq. possessed one which was believed to have
been shot in the severe winter of 1776, at Bryanstone, near Blandford,
Dorsetshire, the scat of Mr. Portman, ancestor of Lord Portman. A
second was subsequently killed in the south of England, and a third
at Iken, near Orford, in the county of Suffolk, in January, 1834.
In Ireland one was shot on the Murrogh of Wieklow, on the 7th.
of July, 1847, by Mr. John Moreton. In Scotland it has occurred
in Caithness.
In the Orkneys, one in Sauday, by Mr. Strang, in October, 1831.
They migrate, it is said, in pairs in April, and in flocks of eight or
ten in September.
The Buddy Shieldrake appears to frequent the land more than the