SHOVELER. 



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NATATORES. 



ANATIDjE. 



THE SHOVELER,* 



Blue-winged Shoveler, or Broad-bill. 



Anas cliipeata, Shoveler Duck, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 264. 



,, rubens. Red-breasted Shoveler, ,, ,, ,, ,, 265. 



,, clypeata. The Slwveler, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Flem. Brit. An. p. 123. 



Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 297. 



Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 230. 



Goui,D, Birds of Europe, pt. xix. 



Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 842. 



Anas. Generic Characters. — Bill about as long as the head, broad, de- 

 pressed, sides parallel, sometimes partially dilated ; both mandibles furnished 

 on the inner edges with transverse lamellae. Nostrils small, oval, lateral, 

 anterior to the base of the beak. Legs rather short, placed under the centre 



* The Shoveler,— genus Spathulea, Fleming, 1822 ; Rhynchaspis, Stephens, 

 1824; and Clypeata, Brehni, 1831. 



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