. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. [ I/I 1 The SHELDRAKE. Le Tadorne. Buff. ^nas I'oflorna, Linn, and Gmel. Vulpanfer. Gefiier, Aldrov. and Klein. Anas Maritima. Gefner, and Aldrov. ... Tadorna. Johnft. Sibbald, Ray, and Bri/T. fbe Skldrake, or Burrough-duck. WUl. Alb. &c. ⢠\lsj E ^rc convinced that the fox-goofe of the ancients (^^jvaXwr^jJ, or vulpanfcrj is the fame with the Sheldrake. Belon has helitated and even varied about the application of thefe names: in his obferiiationsy he refers them
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. [ I/I 1 The SHELDRAKE. Le Tadorne. Buff. ^nas I'oflorna, Linn, and Gmel. Vulpanfer. Gefiier, Aldrov. and Klein. Anas Maritima. Gefner, and Aldrov. ... Tadorna. Johnft. Sibbald, Ray, and Bri/T. fbe Skldrake, or Burrough-duck. WUl. Alb. &c. ⢠\lsj E ^rc convinced that the fox-goofe of the ancients (^^jvaXwr^jJ, or vulpanfcrj is the fame with the Sheldrake. Belon has helitated and even varied about the application of thefe names: in his obferiiationsy he refers them to the goofander, and in his book of the nature of blrdsy he appropriates them to the barnacle. But we may eaiily afcertain, from one of thofe natural properties which are more decifive than all the conjc(5tures of erudition, that thefe names ^pply folely to the Sheldrake ; for it is the only bird which refembles the fox in a fingular cir- cumftance, that of lodging in a hole : it ufually invades and poffefles itfelf of the rabbits' bur- rows, and there it lays and breeds. * In Greek X»na^w7r»)f, from x%vt agoofc, and ct^uwr,^, a fox : in Latin Fulpaujer, which is only a tranflation of the preceding; and alfo Anas Strepera: in German Berg-cntoi (mountain-duck)t fu^hs-gans (fox-gor/ej: in Swedifti yu-jj^oau iElian. ''1 ⢠â ' Ml 'f '(' I i m. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. London : Printed for A. Strachan, and T. Cadell in the Strand, and J. Murray . ..
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