84 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 
One male taken at Kamloops, British Columbia, in June, 1889, 
by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 
LI. SPATULA Bole. 1822. 
142. Shoveller. Spoon-bill. 
Spatula clypeata (LINN.) BOIE. 1822. 
This species is a summer migrant in Newfoundland, Nova 
Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario, but we have no 
record of its breeding, except that McIlwraith says that Dr. Mac- 
allum observed one leading its young within half a mile of Dunn- 
ville, at the mouth of the Grand River, Lake Erie, and Saunders 
and Morden say it may breed on the St. Clair Flats. 
This is one of the commonest ducks in the prairie region, from 
Manitoba to the mountains and from Lat. 49° to the Barren 
Grounds, where it becomes rare, as Macfarlane says only a couple 
of specimens were collected at Fort Anderson in six years. 
Between Lat. 51° and Lat. 54° it is specially abundant, and is 
found in the autumn in immense numbers in every pond and 
lakelet. A few pairs were breeding on Vermilion Lakes, at Banff, 
in May, 1891 ; and at Lake Ste. Anne, Alberta, June, 1898. 
It is a rare species in Alaska, though Nelson reports it breed- 
ing as far north as Kotzebue Sound. Fannin says it is an 
abundant summer resident on the mainland of British Columbia, 
east of the Coast Range, and Brookssays it isa common resident 
in the Lower Fraser valley about Sumas Lake. 
BREEDING NotTes.—Common near Reaburn, Manitoba, and also 
at Buffalo Lake, Alberta, where both eggs and birds were taken. 
(Dippie.) One of the commonest ducks of northwest Canada. 
Breeding abundantly throughout Manitoba and Assiniboia, but 
rarer in Alberta. It lays from ten to twelve eggs, making a nest 
in the grass not far from water. (azne.) 
This species breeds with other water-fowl on all the marshes 
from Kotzebue Sound to the mouth of the Kuskoquim. The eggs 
are deposited the last of May and first of June in a dry spot near 
some pond or stream, and the nest is usually lined with grass and 
feathers, the latter from the parent’s breast. (/Ve/son.) 
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