COMMON SHELLDRAKE. 



NATATORES. 



235 

 ANA TIDjE. 



THE COMMON SHELLDEAKE. 



THE SHIELDBAKE, OR BURROW DUCK. 



Tadorna vulpanser. 



Anas Tadorna, Tlve, Shiddrake, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 256. 



Tadorna Vulpanser, Common 



Bellonii, 

 Vulpanser, 

 Anas Tadorna, 



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

 pt. iv. p. 531. 



THE SHELLDRAKE or Shieldrake is one of the most beau- 

 tiful 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- 



