jia D U C K. 



fulvous, black, and white alternate : lefTer wing coverts white j 

 the greater ones fartheft from the body brown ; thofe neareft 

 the body green gold, forming a large fpot of the fame on the 

 wing : quills brown : the belly, thighs, and under tail coverts, 

 fulvous: tail banded as the upper parts: legs pale red. 

 Pxace. Inhabits Mexico. 



57- Red-breafted Shoveler, Br. Zool. ii. N e 28i. 



RED-BREASTED 



SH. 

 Description. 



O I Z E of a Common Duck. Bill large, ferrated on the fides, 

 and intirely of a brownifh yellow colour : head large': eyes 

 fmall : irides yellow : breaft and throat of a reddifh brown : 

 back brown, growing paler towards the fides : the tips and pi- 

 nions of the wings grey : quills brown ; the reft of a greyifh 

 brown : the fpeculum, or wing fpot, purple, edged with white : 

 tail fhort and white : vent of a bright brown, fpotted with 

 darker : legs fhort and flender : feet fmall, and of a reddifh 

 brown colour. 

 Female. i n xht female all the colours are fainter, and the fpeculum of 



the wings blue. 

 Place. This fpecies is fometimes taken in the decoys of Lincoln- 



Jhire. Shaw mentions a bird, by the name of Barbary Shoveler, 

 which feems much like the above, if not the fame ; but in 

 that author's bird the fpeculum confifted of blue, white, and 



green *. 



* See Trav. p. 254. 



SIZE 



