SHOVELLER. NATATORES. SPATHULEA. 297 
COMMON SHOVELLER. 
SSPATHULEA CLYPEATA, Filem. 
PLATE XLVIII*. Mate and Femate. 
Spathulea clypeata, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 123. sp. 186. 
Rynchapsis clypeata, Shaw’s Zool. 12. 115. pl. 48. 
Anas clypeata, Linn. Syst. 1. 200: 19.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 518.—Lath. Ind. 
Orn. 2. 856. sp. 60.—Wils. Amer. Orn. 8. 87. pl. 67. £7. Male.—Briss. 
Orn. 6. 329. 6. t. 32. f. 1. 
Anas Platyrynchos, Raii Syn. 144. 13. 
Anas Platyrynchos altera, Raii 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 femelle. —Temm. Man. d’Orn. 2. 842. 
Loffle ente, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 1101.—Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 
543. 
Shoveller, Br. Zool. 2. 596. No. 280.—Arct. Zool. 2. No. 489.— Will. (Angl.) 
370. and 371.—Albin’s Birds, 1. t. 97. 98.—Lath. Syn. 6. 509. 55.— 
Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, ed. 1826, f. t. 345.—Flem. Br. 
Anim. 123. sp. 186.—Shaw’s Zool. 12. 115. pl. 48.— Wiis. Amer. Orn. 8. 
67. pl. 67. £. 7. 
Red-breasted Shoveller, Br. Zool. 2. 597. No. 281.—Lath. Syn. 6. 512. 57. 
Young and old males in the Summer change. 
ProvincraL.—Blue-winged Shoveller, Kertlutock, Broad-BilL. 
Tue Shoveller has generally been considered a winter visi- 
tant, but from the remarks of Mr Your tt (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 
