'i64 



SHOVELER DUCK. 



Class 1L 



18. Sho- 



VEItER. 



Anas clypeata. A. rostro ex- 



tremo dilatato rotundato, 



ungue incurvo. Lath. Ind. 



orr.. 856. \d. Syn. vi. 30g. 



id. Sup. ii. 353. 

 Anas latirostra (ein Breitsch- 



nabel.) Gesner av. 120. 

 Aldr. av. iii. 94. 

 fFil. orn. 370. 

 Raii Syn. av. 143. 

 Phasianus marinus. Charlton 



ex. 105. 

 Blue-wing Shoveler (fcem.) 



Cat. Carol, i. q6. 

 Le Souchet. Brisso7i av. vi. 



329. Tab. 32. fg. 1. Hisf. 



dots. ix. 191. Pl.Enl. 971. 

 Schauffl - ente, Loffl - ente. 



Kram. 342. 

 Anas clypeata. Gm. Lin. 518. 

 Faun. Suec. sp. II9. 

 Kertluiock* Krantz's Greenl. 



i. 80. 

 Danis Krop-And. Norvegis 



Stok-And. Cimhris Leffel- 



And. Brunnich, 67. 68. 

 Schield - Ente, Loeffel - Ente. 



Frisch, ii. 161, 162. fcem. 



163. 

 Scopoli, No. 70. 

 Br. Zool. 155. Tab. Q. 4. 



Arct. Zool. ii. 280. 



DESCRIP- 

 TION. 



XHIS weighs twenty-two ounces: its length 

 is twenty-one inches. The bill is black, three 

 inches long, spreads near the end to a great 

 breadth, is furnished with a small hook, and the 

 edges of each mandible are pectinated, or sup- 

 plied with thin laminjE, that lock into each 

 other when the mouth is closed. The irides 

 are of a bright yellow ; the head and upper part 

 of the neck of a blackish green ; the lower part 

 of the neck, the breast, and the scapulars, are 

 white ; the back brown ; the coverts of the 



* i. e. Broad bill. 



