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NA TA TORES. 



ANATID.E. 



ANATIDJE. 



THE SHOVELER,* 



BLUE- WINGED SHOVELER, OR BROAD- BILL. 



Anas dypeata. 



Anas dypeata, SJioveler Duck, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 264. 



rubens, Red-breasted Shoveler, p. 265. 



dypeata, The Shoveler, MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



Spathulea FLEM. Brit. An. p. 123. 



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



Anas JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 230. 



Rhynchaspis Shoveler Duck, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xix. 



Anas Canard souchet, 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 some- 

 what rounded ; toes three in front, connected by intervening membrane ; hind toe 



* The Shoveler, genus Spathuha, Fleming, 1822; Rhyncliaspis^ Stephens, 

 1824 ; and Clypeata, Brehm. 1831. 



