DUCK. $o 9 



Anas clypeata, Liu. Syft. i. p. 200. 19. — Faun. Suee. N° 119. — Scop. Ann. 



i. N° 70. — Brun. N° 77, 78. — Muller, N° 1 17. — Kram. El. p. 342. 15. +. SHOVELER. 



— Fri/cb. pi. 161. 163. — Georgi Rei/c, p. 166. 

 Le Souchet, Brif Orn. vi. p. 329. 6. pi. 32. fig. I. — Buf. Oif. 9. 191.— 



PL Enl. 971, Male ; 972, Female. 

 Shoveler, Rati Syn. p. 143. A. 9. Male ; 144. 13. Female. — Will. Orn. p. 



370. 15. Male; p. 371. 16, 17, Female. — Albin, i. pi. 97, 98. — Catejb. 



Car. i. pi. 96. Fem.—Br. Zoal. N° z%o.—ArB. Zool. N° 485. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



ENGTH twenty-one inches: weight twenty-two ounces. Description; 

 The bill is near three inches in length, and remarkably 

 broad at the end ; the edges much pectinated ; the colour black : 

 irides of a fine deep yellow : the head and neck are gloffy green, 

 changing to violet * : the lower part of the neck and bread 

 white, with a few fpots in the fhape of crefcents : the fcapulars 

 white : back brown : belly chefnut : vent black : the firft and 

 fecond wing coverts pale blue ; the greater brown, tipped with 

 white, forming a band on the wing : the quills are brown; fome 

 of the middle ones edged with green, and forming a fpot of 

 that colour : the tail brown, more or lefs edged with white ; 

 the outer feather wholly white ; fhape cuneiform : legs orange : 

 claws grey. 



The female is a trifle fmaller. The plumage differs greatly : Femalb, 



the wing is marked much the fame, but lefs bright : the reft of 

 the plumage greatly approaching to that of the Wild Duck -, but 

 "for the firft year the wing is like the reft of the body. Both 

 fexes are apt to vary much in colour: the male likewife differs 

 from the female inwardly, having, juft above the divarication of 



* In fome blue.— Willugbby. 



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