SHIELDRAKE. NATATORES. TADORNA. 289 
COMMON SHIELDRAKE. 
Taporna VuLpaAnser, Flem. 
PLATE XLVIII. 
Tadorna Vulpanser, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 122. sp. 185. 
Tadorna Bellonii, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 72. pl. 45. 
Anas Tadorna, Linn. Syst. 1. 195. 4.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 506. 4.—Lath. Ind. 
Ornith. 2. 854. sp. 56.—Raii Syn. 140. A. 1.— Will. 278. t. 70.—Briss. 
Ornith. 6. 344. 9. t. 33. f. 2. 
La Tadorne, Buff: Ois. 9. 205. t. 14.—Id. Pl. Enl. 53. 
Canard 'Tadorne, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 834. 
Brandente, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 976.—Meyer, 'Taschenb. Deut. 2. 534. 
Shieldrake, Br. Zool. 2. 589. No. 278—Arct. Zool. 2. 972. D.—Wiil. 
(Angl.) 363. t. 70. 71.—Albin, 1. t. 94.—Lath. Syn. 6. 504. 51.—Id. Sup. 
. 275.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 7. pl. 248.—Mont. Ornith. Dict. 2. and Sup.— 
Bewick’s Br. Birds, ed. 1826. p. t. 341. 
Burrow Shieldrake, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 72. pl. 45. 
Common Shieldrake, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 122. sp. 45. 
ProvincraL.—Bergander, Shieldrake, Burrow Duck, Pirennet, Sly-goose, 
St George’s Duck, Stockannet, Skelgoose, Skeeling-goose. 
Turis bird, distinguished by its parti-coloured plumage and 
graceful shape, is one of the few amongst the Anatide that 
can be called indigenous, being found at all seasons of the 
year upon various parts of the British coast. It is strictly 
a maritime species, as it is very rarely seen on the rivers or 
lakes of the interidr of the country, and it has even been 
doubted by some, whether it can long exist without having 
access to salt water. A sufficient refutation of such an idea 
is the well known fact of its thriving well when confined to 
fresh water ponds. The Shieldrake continues in its native 
haunts through the whole year, and when once paired, seems 
to live with the same mate till accident or death dissolves the 
connexion. Monracu remarks that the males do not appear 
to attach themselves to the females till the second year, when 
they have acquired the adult plumage; and I have also ob- 
served this to be the case on the Northumbrian coast, where 
these birds are common upon such parts as present a barrier 
of sand-hills, the chosen breeding resort of this species. In 
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