111. THE SHOVELLER. 



Spatula clypeata^ (LINNAEUS). 



Outer web of the primaries blackish; 



inner web drab, with a blackish tip. 

 Axillaries pure white. 

 Upper wing-coverts blue, separated from 



the green speculum by a white band. 

 Bill twice as broad near the tip as at 



the base. 



MALE : Head and under tail-coverts black 



FEMALE : Head and under tail-coverts 

 fulvous, streaked with brown. 



VERNACULAR NAMES : Tidari, Punana, 

 Tokurwalla, Ghirah, Hind. ; Alipat, 

 Sind ; Dhobaha Sankhar (male), Khi- 

 keria Sankhar (female), Nepal ; Punta- 

 mookhi, Bengal. 



THE Shoveller occurs in the winter months 

 throughout the peninsula of India from 

 Kashmir and the Himalayas down to the 

 extreme south, and in Ceylon. It has not 

 yet been procured in the Andamans or 

 Nicobars. It is found in Assam, and it 

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