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Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Identifier: cu31924000047815 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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421 THE RUDDY SHELD-DUCK. Tadorna casArca (Linnseus). The Ruddy Sheld-Duck was first recorded as a British bird from a specimen now in the Newcastle Museum, killed near Blandford, Dorset, during the severe winter of 1776. The species was long ago introduced on many of our ornamental waters, and some birds shot in Norfolk, Northamptonshire and other places were either known or strongly suspected to have escaped from semi-captivity ; though there was less doubt about an example shot from a party of four in Romney Marsh, Kent, on September 8th 1884, as well as a few obtained in Scotland and Ireland. These, however, need not now be specified, for in 1892—a year of very severe drought in south- eastern and southern Europe—the Ruddy Sheld-Duck appeared in such numbers as to preclude any reasonable doubt of a genuine migration. According to the interesting record given by Mr. F. Menteith Ogilvie (Zool. 1892, pp. 392-398), not only single birds, but flocks of 10-15 ^nd even 20 were observed in Jyne and July in several parts of Ireland, the Solway district, and between Sutherland and Norfolk. A few others have subsequently occurred. This emigration in 1892 did not stop at the British Islands, for some wanderers actually found their way to Iceland and even to Greenland; while solitary examples have been recorded from Norway, Sweden, Bornholm in the Baltic, and Lake Ladoga; but

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