SHOVELER. 



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NATATORES. 



ANATIDJZ. 



THE SHOVELER,* 



BLUE-WINGED SHOVELER, OR BROAD-BILL. 



Anas clypeata. 



Anas clypeata, Shoveler Duck, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 264. 



rubens, Bed-breasted SJioveler, p. 265. 



clypeata, The Shoveler, 

 Spathidea 



Common 

 Anas 



Rhynchaspis Shoveler Duck, 

 Anas , Canard souchet, 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 123. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 297. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 230. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 842. 



ANAS. Generic Characters. Bill about as long as the head, broad, 

 depressed, sides parallel, sometimes partially dilated; both mandibles 

 furnished on the inner edges with transverse lamellae. Nostrils small, 

 oval, lateral, anterior to the base of the beak. Legs rather short, placed 

 under the centre of the body ; tarsus somewhat rounded ; toes, three in 



* The Shoveler, genus Spathulea, Fleming, 1822; Rhynchaspis, Ste- 

 phens, 1824 ; and Clypeata, Brehm, 1831. 



