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Genus SPATULA, Boie. 

 Spatula clypeata (Linn.). 



Anas clypeata, Tliien. Farfpttniiz. i;cs. Vog. tab. Ixxix. f]f(. 7 (1845—54) ; 



HnvttsuH, Ejjys of Brit. Birds; ii. p. 400, pi. cxii. tio;. ii (18o0); 



8eebohin, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 554, pi. 63 (1885) ; id. Eggs of Brit. 



Birds, p. 42, pi. 13. tip-. 2 (1896). 

 Rliynchopsis clypeata, Baedeker, Eifr Eur. Vdg. tab. Gl.lio-. 2 (1855-63). 

 Spatula clypeata, Srdvin, Ihis, 1859, p. 363; Dresser, Birds Eur. vi. 



p. 497' (1873) ; Hiivie ^ Marsh. Game Birds hid. iii. p. 141 (1880) ; 



Baird, Brewer Sr Bidgic. Water Birds N. Am. i. p. 526 (1884); 



Nelson, Beiiort Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. 69 (1887) ; Snlvadari, Cat. 



Birds B. M. xxvii. p. 306 (1895) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 221 (1899). 



The eggs of the Shoveler are of an elliptical or narrow oval 

 shape, and fairly glossy. They vary from pale huffish white to a 

 pale greenish buff. They measure from 20-2 to 2-38 in length, 

 and from 1'4 to 1-58 in breadth. 



4. Yukon Delta, Alaska, 5th June 

 (E. W. Nelson: Henshaw Coll.). 



3. Yukon Delta, 5tli June (E. W. N. : 

 Henshaw Coll.). 



2. Canada {Whiteares: Haryitt Coll.). 



1. Manitoba, 19th June (G. M. Daw- 

 son ). 



6. Manitoba, 19th June (6?. M. D.). 



1. Jjoch Awe, Scotland, 14th May 



(E. Milner). 



2. Merton, Norfolk, 30th May (Lord 



Walsingham). 

 ]. Elveden, Suffolk, June {E. Neivton). 

 1. Holland (Tristram Cull.). 



7. Denmark. 



1. Esthonia, Baltic Sea, 18tli Juue 



(Bi/ssow). 



2. Pdmerania, 21st April {T. Holland). 

 2. Zana, Algeria, Gtli June (0. Salvin). 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godnian Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



N. Anier. Bound. Comni. 



N. Amer. Bound. Comni. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Cull. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Spatula rhynchotis (Lath.). 



Spatula rlivncliotis, Gould, Handh. Birds Aw^tr.u. p. 368 (1865) ; North, 

 Nests' Si- Et/gs Austr. Birds, p. 343 (ISSK); .Salvadori, Cat. Birds 

 B. Af. xxvi'i. ]). 314 (1895); S/iarpe, Hand-l. i. p. 221 (1899); 

 Nehrk. Kut. Eiersamml. p. 245 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests ^- Eqi/x 

 Austr. Birds, ii. p. 1044 (1901). 



Rhvnfhaspis variegata. Potts. Trans. Neic Zeal. Inst. iii. p. 102 (1871) ; 

 ' Bidler, Birds Neio Zeal. 2nd ed. ii. p. 269 (1888). 



The eggs of the Australian Shoveler are of an elongated oval 

 shape, smooth, anfl slightly glossy. The}' are cream-coloured, faintly 

 tinged with green, and measure from 2"06 to 2-2 in length, and 

 from 1-43 to ]-5 in breadth. 



5. Yandembah, New South Wales, Crowlev Bequest. 



Sept. (A. J. North). 

 2. Taieri River, Otago, New Zealand Crowley Beque.st. 

 [E. 1'. Sei/mour). 

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