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being furnished with a very small incurved nail. 

 The lamellae at the edges of the mandibles are very 

 long and fine, resembling cilia ; and those of the 

 opposite mandibles fit into each other in such a 

 manner that very little food can escape the indivi- 

 dual while he is in search thereof. 



Some species of this genus have the upper part of 

 the beak, towards the tip, membranaceous, or with 

 the edges of the upper mandible prolonged on each 

 side into a membranaceous appendage. 



COMMON SHOVELER. 



(Rhynchaspis clypeata.) 



RH. capite collogue supremo viridibiis, dorso rectridbusquejuscis, 



abdomine castaneo, tectricibus alarum minoribus, Jasciaque 



alarum caeruleis. 

 Shoveler with the head and superior part of the neck green, the 



back and quills brown, the abdomen chesnut, the lesser wing- 



corerts and a fascia on the wing blue. 

 Anas clypeata. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 200. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



518. Briss. Orn. 6. 329. pi 32.f. 1. male. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2. 856. 



Anas platyrhynchos altera. Rail, Syn. 143. A. male. 

 Anas platyrhynchos. Rail, Syn. 144. 

 Souchet. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 191 . Buff. PL Enl. 971, 972. 



Cur. Reg. Anim. 1. 536. 



Canard souchet. Temm. man. d'Orn. 543. Id. 2 Edit. ii. 842. 

 Anas rubens. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1.519. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 837. 

 Red-breasted Shoveler. Penn, Brit. Zool. 2. 281. Lath. Gen. 



Syn. 6.512. 



