SHOVELLER. NATATORES. SPATHULEA. 297 



COMMON SHOVELLER. 



SPATHULEA CLYPEATA, Flem. 

 PLATE XLV1II *. MALE and FEMALE. 



Spathulea clypeata, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 123. sp. 186. 



Rynchapsis clypeata, Shaw's Zool. 12. 115. pi. 48. 



Anas clypeata, Linn. Syst. 1. 200. 19. Gmel. Syst. 1. 518 Lath^Ind. 



Orn. 2. 856. sp. 60 Wils. Amer. Orn. 8. 87. pi. 67. f. ^. Male. Sms. 



Orn. 6. 329. 6. t. 32. f. 1. 

 Anas Platyrynchos, Rail Syn. 144. 13. 

 Anas Platyrynchos altera, ".Ran Syn. 143. A. 9 Will 283. 

 Anas rubens, Gmel. Syst 1. 519 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 857. sp. 62. 

 Canard Souchet, ou le rouge, Buff. Ois. 9. 191 Id. PL Enl. 971. et 972. 



Male et femeUe Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2. 842. 

 Loffle ente, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 1101 Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 



543. 

 ShoveUer, Br. Zool. 2. 596. No. 280 Arct. Zool. 2. No. 489 Will. (Angl.) 



370. and 371 Albirfs Birds, 1. t. 97. 98 Lath. Syn. 6. 509. 55 



Mont. Ornith. Diet Bewick's Br. Birds, ed. 1826, f. t. 345 Flem. Br. 



Anim. 123. sp. 186 Shaw's Zool. 12. 115. pi. 48 Wils. Amer. Orn. 8. 



67. pi. 67. f. 7. 

 Red-breasted Shoveller, Br. Zool. 2. 597. No. 281 Lath. Syn. 6. 512. 57- 



Young and old males in the Summer change. 



PROVINCIAL Blue- winged Shoveller, Kertlutock, Broad-Bill. 



THE Shoveller has generally been considered a winter visi- 

 tant, but from the remarks of Mr YOUELL (in the thirteenth 

 volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society), it ap- 

 pears to breed in the marshes of Norfolk, as he had the 

 young hatched from a number of eggs obtained from thence. 

 It has also been known to breed in the neighbourhood of the 

 Tweed ; and in my collection is a male bird, that was killed 

 in July, after having undergone the curious change in the 

 colour of the feathers that assimilates the males of most of 

 the species of this subfamily to the females, after the sexual 

 intercourse has taken place. The Shoveller is, however, at 

 no time plentiful in Britain, and is reckoned amongst the 

 rarer members of the present family. It is a shy and timo- 

 rous bird, and not easily domesticated, even under the most 



