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SHOVELER. 



BUTE-WINGED SHOYELER. SHOYELER BUCK". 



RED-BREASTED SHOYELER. COMMON' SHOYELER. 



BROAD-BILL. KERTLUTOCK. 



Anas clypeata, 



" rubensy 



" muscaricty 

 Spathulea clypeata, 

 Rhynchaspis clypeata, 



Pennant. Montagu. 

 Pennant. 



Gesner. 



Fleming. Selby, 

 Gould. 



Anas— A Duck. 



Clypeata. Clypeus—k Shield. 



The Shoveler is more or less common in Europe, in Sweden, 

 Norway, Holland, Prussia, Kamtschatka, Poland, Denmark, 

 Russia, Germany, Italy, and France. It has been noticed in 

 Asia, in Japan, India, Asia Minor, Persia, and the country 

 near the Caucasus; and has been brought both from Southern 

 and Northern Africa. It is found in America, in the United 

 States and about Hudson's Bay; southwards also, it is said, as 

 far as Carolina and Mexico. 



In Yorkshire, one was shot in December, 1852, at Carlton 

 Miniott, near Thirsk, which Edward D. Swarbreck, Esq., of 

 the latter place, has written me word of. One, a male, was 

 obtained at Riccall, near Selby, about the 28th. of March, 

 1850. Specimens have also occurred near Doncaster, York, 

 Killingbeck, near Leeds, and G-reatland, near Halifax. The 

 Rev. R. P. Alington has met with this bird in the Louth 

 market, no doubt a Lincolnshire specimen. It has also been 

 noticed, he tells me, on Croxby Lake. 



In Norfolk, several occurred near Lynn, in the winter of 

 1851-2. It is not uncommon in the neighbourhood of 



