116 COMMON SHOVELER. 



Shoveler. Penn. Brit.Zool. 2. 280. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 485. 

 Alb. Birds, 2. pi. 97, 98. Catesby, Carol. I. pi. 96. Hayes, 

 Brit. Birds, pi. 27. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 509. Lath. Gen. 

 Syn. ii. 353. Lath. Linn. Trans, iv. 109. pi. 13. f. 4, b. 

 (trachea). Lew. Brit. Birds, 7. /;/. 252. Wale. Syn. I. pi. 67. 

 Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. and Sup. Ben. Brit. Birds, 2. 345. 

 If 'Us. A'ner. Orn. viii. p. 65.pl. Ixvii./". 7. male. 



LENGTH upwards of eighteen inches: beak broad 

 and spatulaform, black, but yellowish beneatli : irides 

 yellow : the head and neck deep glossy green : breast 

 pure white : the belly and sides of a chesnut red : 

 the back of a blackish-brown : the wing-coverts clear 

 blue : the scapulars are white, marked with dots and 

 streaks of blackish : the speculum of the wing is deep 

 green : the legs are reddish-orange. The female has 

 the head of a clear red, marked with small black 

 streaks : the feathers on the upper parts are blackish- 

 brown, edged with whitish-red : the under parts are 

 reddish-white, marked with large brown spots : the 

 lesser wing-coverts are dull blue : the speculum is 

 blackish-green : the beak is blackish-brown, with its 

 edges and under parts brown : the irides are bright 

 yellow. The young male in the autumn, and the 

 old during moulting, have some feathers proper to 

 the dress of the males in winter, and others proper 

 to the female or the young male before moulting : 

 these feathers are indistinctly mixed. 



The trachea of the male is very slightly enlarged 

 towards the inferior larynx, and has a small osseous 

 protuberance, which is rather dilated below, on its 

 left side ; the bronchia are very long. 



Inhabits various countries of the north of Europe 



