COMMON SHELLDRAKE. 



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NATATORES. 



ANATID/F.. 



THE COMMON SHELLDRAKE, 

 The Shieldrake, or Burrow Duck. 



Anas Tadorna, 



Tadorna Vidpanser, Common ,, 



,, Bellonii, 

 ,, Vulpanser, 

 Anas Tadorna, 



The Shieldrake, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 256. 

 ,, ,, Montagu, Ornith. Diet. 



,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol.ii. p. 357. 



Flem. Brit. An. p. 122. 

 ,, ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 289. 



,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 229. 



,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. viii. 



Canard Tadortie, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 833. 



„ „ pt. iv. p. 531. 



The Shieldrake is one of the most beautiful in appear- 

 ance of our ornamental water-fowl : tlie various colours of its 

 plumage are pure and brilliant, strongly contrasted ; their 

 limits well defined ; and the birds are retained in a state of 

 domestication without difficulty. This species differs greatly 

 from that of the same genus last described, in being rarely 



