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Sheldrake

noun

Large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges. Synonyms: fish duck, merganser, sawbill.

Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill.

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... Charley shot the sheldrake of Port Essington, (Tadorna Rajah). The singular hissing or grinding note of the bower bird was heard all along the river; the fruit of the fig trees growing near, which seemed to supply it with its principal food during this ...

— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt

... pleasant; the soil black and rich, though not deep; the sides of the hills covered with large trees of the evergreen kind, growing to a great height before they spread out into branches. There were several species of land birds; and the aquatic fowl were ducks, teal, and the sheldrake. An opossum was seen, and the excrement of another quadruped, judged to be of the deer kind. Sea fish were caught, but not in plenty. The lagoons abounded with trout and several other sorts of fish. No natives came down to the ...

— A Voyage to Terra Australis • Matthew Flinders

... Plover Renard Seagull Nautilus Swallow Brisei Cockatrice Scorpion Goldfinch Reindeer Hornet Espoir Mutine Nightingale Camden Pike Lapwing Skylark Duke of York Sheldrake Pigeon Spey Lady Mary Pelham Opossum ...

— A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World • James MacQueen

Words linked to "Sheldrake" : Mergus merganser, Mergus serrator, Tadorna, Mergus merganser americanus, smew, genus Mergus, goosander, Mergus, hooded sheldrake, Lophodytes cucullatus, shelduck, Mergus albellus, American merganser, red-breasted merganser, hooded merganser, genus Tadorna, duck, sea duck