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NATATORES. 



ANATHLE. 



ANATID^J. 



THE COMMON SHELLDRAKE. 



THE SHIELDRAKE, OR BURROW DUCK. 



Tadorna vulpanser. 



A nets Tadorna, 



Tadorna Vulpanser, Common 



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. Yert. p. 229. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Canard Tadorne, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 833. 

 pt. iv. p. 531. 



THE SHELLDRAKE, or Shieldrake, is one of the most 

 beautiful in appearance of our ornamental water-fowl : 

 the various colours of its plumage are pure and brilliant, 

 strongly contrasted; their limits well denned; and the 

 birds are retained in a state of domestication without dif- 



