sheldrake

• Or that I can dive down at one side of a Highland loch and come up at the other like a sheldrake? —  Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
• Similarly a male Australian sheldrake was paired to a male of another species. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
• The attempt having succeeded, it was wished to follow it up by the naturalisation in the poultry-yard of two other sorts of aquatic birds, namely, the sheldrake (_tadorna_) and the moorhen, but without success. —  Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period
• Wild geese, cleaving the air in wedge shaped line, honked harshly that the season for gathering stores of food was passing, while at times, on a dull morning, it was as if the waters of the bay were covered completely with ducks of many kinds DUCKS AND OYSTERS I have heard Captain Smith say more than once, that he had seen flocks of ducks a full mile wide and five or six miles long, wherein canvasbacks, mallard, widgeon, redheads, dottrel, sheldrake, and teal swam wing to wing, actually crowding each other. —  Richard of Jamestown : a Story of the Virginia Colony
• A young emu was killed with the assistance of Spring; and a sheldrake was shot by Brown. —  Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845

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