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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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