402 ANATINZE. 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 27; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 437; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 290; 
Game Birds of India, Vol. ITI, p. 141; Swinhoe and Barnes, 
Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 137. 
THE SHOVELLER. ; 
3. Length, 19°7 to 21°75; expanse, 29°75 to 325; wing, 9 to 
9°83; tail, 36 to 4; tarsus, 1:2 to 1:5; bill from gape, 2°95 to 
3°05 ; weight, 1-4, to 144 lbs. 
?. Length, 18 to 19; expanse, 27 to 295; wing, 8 to 89; tail,. 
35 to 385; tarsus, 1:2 to 14; bill from gape, 2°65 to 2°87; 
weight, 1 to 17, lbs. 
Bill black, or leaden-dusky ; in the female dark brown; irides 
vary from yellow to brown and reddish-orange ; legs and feet vary 
from orange to Indian-red. 
Male, head and upper part of the neck deep brown, with 
glossy green reflections; back dark umber-brown; scapulars 
white ; rump and upper tail-coverts brown, glossed with blackish- 
green ; the sides of the rump white ; tail brown, the feathers edged 
with white, and the outer one wholly white ; lesser wing-coverts 
pale greyish-blue ; median, tipped with white; greater-coverts, 
forming the speculum, brilliant green; primaries umber-brown ; 
tertials rich purplish-black ; lower neck and breast white ; abdomen 
brownish-red ; lower tail-coverts brown, glossed with blackish-green. 
The female has the head pale reddish-brown with fine dusky 
streaks; the rest of the upper parts dark brown, the feathers 
edged with reddish-white; lesser wing-coverts slightly tinged 
with pale blue ; speculum not so bright as in the male; under 
parts reddish, with large round spots. 
Towards the end of summer the male puts on a peculiar 
livery, something like that of the female, but with the head black. 
The Shoveller is very common throughout the district, but it 
does not appear in such immense flocks as so many of the other 
ducks do, preferring to form small parties ; it affects the edges of 
tanks in preference to open water. It is not anice eating duck, 
and is not much sought after by sportsmen. 
Genus, Anas, Lin. | 
Bill of moderate length, depressed throughout, not so deep at 
the base as wide, nearly of uniform width; the lamelle short, 
projecting very slightly ; the tip rounded ; nostrils near the base ; 
tail short, of 16 feathers, the middle tail feathers of some more 
or less curled upwards. 
Anas boschas, Zin. 
958.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 798; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 27; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 437; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 292; 
Game Birds of India, Vol. III, p. 151; Swinhoe and Barnes, 
Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 137. 
