DEscrIP- 
TION. 
SHOVELER DUCK. 
Anas clypeata. A. rostro ex- 
tremo dilatato rotundato, 
ungue incurvo. Lath. Ind. 
orn. 856. zd. Syn. vi. 509. 
id. Sup. ii. 353. 
Anas latirostra (ein Breitsch- 
nabel.) Gesner av. 120. 
Aldr. av. iii. 94. 
Wil. orn. 370. 
Ratt Syn. av. 143. 
Phasianus marinus. 
ex. 105. 
Blue-wing Shoveler 
Cat. Carol. 1. 96. 
Charlton 
(fem.) 
CuLaAss IL. 
dois. ix. 191. Pl. Eni. 971. 
Schauffl - ente, Loff - ente. 
Kram. 342. 
Anas clypeata. Gm. Lin. 518. 
Faun. Suec. sp. 119. 
Kertlutock * Krantz’s Greenl. 
1. 80. 
Danis Krop-And. Norvegis 
Stok-And. Cimbris Leftel- 
And. Brunnich, 67. 68. 
Schield - Ente, Loeffel - Ente. 
Frisch, ii. 161, 162. fem. 
163. 
Scopoli, No. 70. 
Le Souchet. Brisson av. vi. 
329. Tab. 32. fig. 1. Hist. 
Br. Zool. 155. Tab. Q. 4. 
Arct. Zool. ii. 280. 
Tuts 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 lamine, 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 
* 7. e. Broad bill. 
