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SHIELDRAKE. 
COMMON SHIELDRAKE. SHELDRAKE. SHELLDRAKE. 
SKELDRAKE. BURROW DUCK. SKELGOOSE. SKEELING GOOSE. 
Tadorna Bellonii, STEPHENS. 
vulpanser, FLEMING, 
Anas tadorna, Linnzus, PENNANT. 
Tadorna—.........++. ? Bellonii—Of Bellon. 
Te Shieldrake is a bird of very wide dispersion. In Europe 
it is known in Sweden, where it breeds; also in Iceland, 
Norway, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and Holland. In 
Asia, its range extends from Kamtschatka and the southern 
parts of Siberia to Persia, Tartary, China, and Japan. Bewick 
mentions that Captain Cook has noticed them at Van Diemen’s 
Land, and that they have been seen in great numbers on 
the Falkland Islands. 
This species is strictly a maritime one, though it has 
sometimes occurred inland; but such instances form the 
‘exception, not the rule.’ It has been shot in Northampton- 
shire, the Hon. T. L. Powys has written me word, and he 
also mentions two killed near Oxford. In Cambridgeshire 
it used to be not uncommon. In Yorkshire, it has occurred 
near Doncaster, also near York, Driffield, and Thirsk, but 
rarely. Several have been found near Sutton-on-Derwent, where 
they have appeared in small flocks. They used to breed on 
the banks of the Humber. In Nottinghamshire, near Retford. 
In Northumberland, they build on the coast, where there 
is sand above high-water mark. 
In Lincolnshire, the Rev. R. P. Alington informs me that 
the Shieldrake occurs on the sea-coast, near Summercoats, 
