SHOVELER, AND GOLDEN-EYE DUCKV 557 



£r. ZooLii. N" 280. — Le Souchet, TL EnL ^i\. — Anas Clypeata, Faun, 485. Shovelerv 



5a^f. N°II9. — Latham, iii. 

 Blue-wing Shoveler, Catejby, i. 96. (fem.) — Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



1"^^ With a very large black bill, expanding greatly towards the- 

 end: head,, and greateft part of the neck, of a mallard, 

 green ; lower part of the neck, breaft, and fcapulars, white : belly 

 bay : back brown : coverts of wings of a fine fky-blue : primaries 

 dufky : fpeculam green: outmoft feathers of the tail white; reft; 

 dufky, edged with white : legs red. Plumage of the Female like 

 that of the common Wild Duck; only the coverts of the wings 

 are of the fame colors with thofe of the Drake. Length twenty- 

 one inches. Weight twenty-two ounces.. 



Found about Nem Tork, and even as low as Carolina^ during Pt&cE» 



winter. Is common in Kamifchatka ; and breeds in every latitude 

 of the Ruffian, dominions ; but chiefly ia the north. Inhabits Sweden 

 and Norway. We are to feek for th.c Swaddle BUI, an afh- colored 

 Duck of Carolina, with an extraordinary broad bill, faid not to be. 

 very common there,: but. to be very good food ;, we mult therefore, 

 join it, for the prefent, to this jpecies., 



£r. Zool. ii. N° 276. — Anas Clangula, Khipa. Dopping, Faun. Suec. N'yzz, 486. G'6r.nsN« 

 Le Garrot, PL Enl. 802. — Ph, Tran/. Ixii. 417. — Latham, iii. —Lev.-- ^'^^' 



Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



With a (hort broad black bill : large head, black, gloffed with, 

 green:, at each corner of the mouth a great white fpot : 

 breaft and belly whitq ; back, lefler coverts of the wings, and tail, 

 black : fcapulars black and white: greater coverts white: prima- 

 ries dufky : legs orange. Head of the Female rufty brown : neck' 

 grey : breaft and belly white : coverts and fcapulars duflcy and cine- 

 reous : primaries and tail black : legs dufky. Length nineteen ■ 

 inches. Extent thirty-one. WfiioHT.two pounds. 



Inhabits 



