DUCKS. 411 



Cape. Egg large, cream white, about 2J in. long by 2 in. 

 broad. 



258. A. KUTILA, Pall. Kodgul And. The Buddy Shel- 



drake. D. 



Whole body colour red-yellow ; head yellow-white ; 

 tail and rump glossy black ; the male has a broad black 

 collar round the neck ; wing speculum green, with a 

 great white patch on the front wing ; beak and legs 

 black. Length 22 in. tarsus 2 in. 2 1 ; beak from 

 forehead 1 in. 6 1. ; tail with fourteen feathers. 

 Egg exactly like the last, but a little blunter and smaller. 

 These two eggs are the most white ivory -like of any of the 

 ducks' eggs. 



Only very accidental in Scandinavia. The eastern tracts 

 of Europe are its native home. 



259. A. CLYPEATA, L. Sked And. The Shoveller. D. F. 



Beak long, broad at the end like a spoon ; head and 

 neck glossy green ; back brown ; belly and abdomen 

 brown-red ; lesser wing coverts pale blue ; top of the 

 breast white ; scapular long, pale blue, glossy ; specu- 

 lum green, bordered in front with white and pale blue ; 

 beak black ; legs yellowish. Female much resembles 

 the female wild duck, but may always be known by the 

 beak. Length 20 in. ; beak 2-f- in. ; tarsus l in. ; eye 

 yellow. 



Is, I consider, a very rare duck in Scandinavia, and one 

 which I never met with. Is said to breed at Quickiock, and 

 even up at Happaranda. I did hear that a specimen had 

 once been killed at Quickiock, but I never heard that it 

 bred there. 



The egg is something the colour of that of the common 

 wild duck, but a little blunter than that of the widgeon, and 

 no larger. 



260. A. BOSCHAS, L. Gras And. The Common Wild 



Duck. 



Head and neck glossy dark green, a white cravat 

 round the neck ; back grey-brown, with darker streaks; 



