The Shoveller 



Blue-wing. The bird's eye, moreover, is golden, like that of the genus 

 Clangula, and in its striped scapulars as well as in the pattern of color- 

 ation on flanks and tail-coverts the bird recalls the lordly Pintail. 



The nesting of the Shoveller is not differentiated from that of a half 

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GENERAL EXODUS 



areas adjacent to swamps. Ten or eleven eggs, buffy as to hue, with a 

 greenish cast, are placed in a grass-lined depression on the ground; and 

 when the set nears completion an abundance of dark down is provided, 

 both to retain the parental warmth, and to screen the eggs from observa- 

 tion in the owner's absence. One curious fact came to light in the course 

 of a season's nesting; namely, the dependence of the ducks upon the 

 presence of Meadowlarks. We found that the close proximity of these 



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