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RHYNCHASPIS CLYPEATA. THE BLUE-WINGED 

 SHOVEL-BILL. 



SHOVELLER. BLUE-WIXGED SHOVELLER. BROAD-BILL. RED-BREASTED 

 SHOVELLER. 



Anas clypeata. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 200. 



Anas clypeata. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 856. 



Shoveller. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. 



Canard Souchet. Anas clypeata. Temm. Man. d'Omith. II. 842. 



Common Shoveller. Spathulea clypeata. Selby, lUustr. II. 297. 



Anas clypeata. Common Shoveller. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. Anim. 230. 



Ehynchaspis clypeata. Bonap. Comp. List, 57. 



Male ivith the hill greyish-black, two inches and a half 

 long, an inch and a quarter in breadth near the end ; feet 

 orange-red; head and upper neck glossed with green and 

 purple ; loicer neck ivhite ; breast purplish- chestnut ; back 

 greenish-black ; smaller icing-coverts light blue ; scapulars 



