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they are not common as the others are." As Pennant remarks 

 in his Arctic Zoology, 1785, referring to the above (but without 

 naming Lawson) : " We must therefore join it, for the present, 

 to this species." 



In Swainson's Provincial Names of British Birds, 1885, we 

 find SHOVELARD (Norfolk); MAIDEN DUCK (Wexford); SHEL- 

 DRAKE and WHINYARD (Waterford); "whinyard" being "the 

 name for a knife like the Shoveller's bill in shape." Mr. Swain- 

 son also states that the name Whinyard is given in Wexford to 

 the European Pochard Fuligula ferina. 



