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The measiiremeDts are as follows: 



U. S. Nat. JUiis. yo.92Sh, L.Slej>ie[i(r,Xo.'~(m. Bering Mand, May I, 1SH3. $ ad. 



Total lengtli, 44>-"'™; tips of closed -niugs reacb tip of tail; ■wing,234">™; tail- 

 feathers, 73™°' ; exjios-cd culuieu, oJ'^t" ; laisuis, 41""" ; >jiuldle toe, with claw, 50°"". 



Bill dark plumbeous blue ; tii)s, iucludiug uail, toniia, aud lower mandible, black; 

 feet i)kmibeous, with a faint yellowish tinge; webs blackish. 



70. Spatula clypeata (Lin.). 



1758.— Anas clypcafahiis:., Syst. Nat., 10 ed., I, p. 124.— Pall., Zoogr. Ross. As., II, p. 

 282 (1826).— NORDMANN in Ennan's Verz., Thier. Pliauz., p. 18(1835).— 

 Temm. & SciiLEG., Faun. Jap. Av. ([i. 128) (1849).— Middkxd., Sibir. Reia., 

 11,2 (p. 233) (18.}3).— KiTTL , Denkw., II,p. 294 (1858).— Schrenck, Reis. 

 Auiuil.,I,p 481 (18G0).— Kadde, Keis. Siid. Ost-Sibir., II (p. 383) (1863).— 

 SwiNH., P. Z. S., 1863, p. 324.— Przew., Putesch. Ussur. (u.20U), 1870.— 

 Blakist., Ibis, 1876, p. 335. — BhifVclnispis c. SwiNH., Ibis, 1861, p. 345. — Id.^ 

 ibid., 18')2, p.254 — /(<., J6id , 1867, p. 33.-'.— Taczan., J. f. Orn., 1873, p. 110.— 

 Id., ibid., Ifc74, p.337.— M, Orn. Faun. Vost Sibir.,p. -^0 {IS").— Id ,Bnll. 

 Soc. Zool. France, 1^77, p. 46.— irf.,t7'(rf., 1883, ]>. 343.— >j)a/M/a c. Blakist., 

 Ibis, 18(i2, p. 332.— 7rf., Amend. List B. Jap., p. 9 (1884).— Whitely, Ibis, 

 1867, p. 207.— Dall & Bannist., Tr. Chicag. Ac, 1, 1869, j). 297.— Swinh., P. 

 Z. S.,1871, p. 418.— Zrf., Ibis, 1875, p. 457.— Blakist. and Pryer, Ibis. 1878, 

 p. 214.— iirf., Tr. As. Soc. Jap., VIII, 1880,p. 185.— Jid.,i6i(f.,X, 1882, p.9o.— 

 Nelson, Cruise Corwin, p. 96 (1883). 



List of specimens collected. 



No. 92838.— Iris, pale yellow ; bill black, -with fbe extreme point of tbe mental anfile pale yellowish; 

 feet p.ile reddish orange ; webs violet gray, when alive, the violet tinge disappeaiing us goon as dead, 

 the color of the web becoming brownish afterwards. Kot fat. Tips of tail, tips of clcsed wings, and 

 middle claw, le^s stretched backwariis, meet in one point. 



The Shoveller, known to the natives by its Eussian name, ^' /S'oAsjm," 

 is one of the rarer ducks on Berinj? Island. A few pairs breed probably 

 in the open valleys on the southeastern shore, as, for instance, at Pol i- 

 vino. In 1883 the tirst ones were observed by nie, on the 24th of April, 

 on the beach between Polavino and SlastnoJ. At the village they were 

 seen at the end of May, and during the first week of June. 



During my stay in Petropanlski, from the middle of May, 1883, to the 



