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C rutila
Sheldrake Shel"drake`, n. [Sheld + drake.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, or tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows. Note: It has the head and neck greenish black, the breast, sides, and forward part of the back brown, the shoulders and middle of belly black, the speculum green, and the bill and frontal bright red. Called also shelduck, shellduck, sheldfowl, skeelduck, bergander, burrow duck, and links goose. Note: The Australian sheldrake (Tadorna radja) has the head, neck, breast, flanks, and wing coverts white, the upper part of the back and a band on the breast deep chestnut, and the back and tail black. The chestnut sheldrake of Australia (Casarca tadornoides) is varied with black and chestnut, and has a dark green head and neck. The ruddy sheldrake, or Braminy duck (C. rutila), and the white-winged sheldrake (C. leucoptera), are related Asiatic species. 2. Any one of the American mergansers. Note: The name is also loosely applied to other ducks, as the canvasback, and the shoveler.

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- and Western Australia. Generally, C. rutila lives among seagr**** subtidally. Bouchet, P. (2015). Conasprella rutila (Menke, 1843). Accessed through: World...
- Chariesthes rutila is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Karl Jordan in 1894. It is known from Gabon and Equatorial Guinea...
- Cymbiola rutila, the blood-red volute, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. The s**** attains...
- The cinnamon hummingbird (Amazilia rutila) is a species of hummingbird (named for its brilliant brown gold color) in the tribe of the 'emeralds', Trochilini...
- The Mexican red shiner (Cyprinella rutila) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. It is...
- Cambridge, M****achusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 450. Sherborn, C. Davies (1905). "The new species of birds in Vroeg's catalogue, 1764". Smithsonian...
- The chestnut bunting (Emberiza rutila) is a p****erine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae found in the East Palearctic. It is a fairly small bunting...
- was re****igned to Streptoprocne. It and the chestnut-collared swift (C. rutila) form a superspecies. Its specific epithet honors William H. Phelps Jr...
- Chestnut-collared swift (Streptoprocne rutila) Subspecies: S. r. griseifrons, S. r. brunnitorques. & S. r. rutila Chantler, Phillip; Driessens, Gerard (2000)...
- Cramer, 1781 Anticla limosa Schaus, 1892 Anticla ortygia Druce, 1887 Anticla rutila (Druce, 1887) Anticla symphora Schaus, 1929 Anticla tarasia Schaus, 1929...